CGS 3092 Suggestions To Improve Your Paper Presentation

CGS 3092suggestions To Improve Your Paperpresentation

CGS 3092 Suggestions to Improve Your Paper/Presentation Score Some Approaches: The following approaches might be useful for developing your topic. This does not mean that all of this information should be in your paper. 1. Look up definitions of key terms. If legalities are involved, look up the legal definitions of the terms (or their non-â€technology equivalent terms) as well. 2. Try to find one or two relevant cases, especially those that are expected to be ground-â€breaking legal actions. 3. Decide which type of ethical analysis is appropriate for your topic, such as stakeholder analysis, societal impact statement, classical philosophy (such as Utilitarian, Kantian, etc.). Try to develop the analysis, using your cases where appropriate. Common Errors: After grading papers and presentations for many semesters, I have compiled the following list of serious errors seen in those papers. Use this as a checklist to ensure that your paper is a quality paper. 1. Do not use first (I, me, my, mine, we, our, ours) or second (you, your, yours) person in a research paper ever. Use only third person. You will probably use a lot of passive voice. 2. The tone of your article should be one of scholarly research. It should NOT be “chatty†like a magazine article. Do not use questions. State facts instead. 3. Direct quotes should almost never be used. You should be able to read and discuss what you have read. Cobbling together a bunch of direct quotes as a paper will produce a grade of F, regardless of the use of citations. 4. You are not writing an essay about your personal opinions. You are presenting an investigation of an ethical issue and an ethical analysis of that issue and the different aspects of it. 5. Check your grammar! Make sure there are no run-â€on sentences, and that verbs agree with nouns. MS Word has a grammar checker, but it does not always handle complex sentences correctly. Proofread!! If you are weak in English, get help in proofreading and grammar correction. 6. No contractions – ever!! (Examples: can't, don't, won't, isn't, etc.) 7. Numbers from one to ten should be spelled out; all others should use digits only. 8. No extra spacing between paragraphs – the first line indent handles paragraph separation. Extra spacing will be assumed to be “padding†for the count. 9. No bulleted or numbered lists ever. Discuss it instead. 10. No charts or figures. They will not be counted toward your count. 11. Make sure all of your content is relevant to your main issue. Irrelevant content is padding! All of your discussion and cases should be about ethical issues related to the use of technology. 12. Your focus is ethical analysis – pick one or more ethical analysis methods and demonstrate you can use them. 13. Make sure that you focus on the ethical issues, including both points of view, counterarguments, and valid case studies (no fictional cases ever). 14. The majority of your paper should NOT be about what the technology is and how it works. The majority of your paper should be an exploration and analysis of the ethical issues. Your audience is very knowledgeable about technology – you do not have to teach us about it. A brief discussion of the "what is" is sufficient. 15. Make sure that references are done correctly, using APA style and IEEE numbering. a. If the article was published in a newspaper of journal, use that as the citation type, not web type. b. All web-â€based links must be valid. By valid, the link should take you directly to the paper or article. A link to the main of a web site is a bad reference. c. Never use Wikipedia, blogs, forums, Yahoo Answers, HowStuffWorks, WikiAnswers, etc. as references for a research paper. 16. Follow formatting requirements for font, font size, headers, abstract, body, references, etc., as described in the Format of the Paper document. 17. No cartoons in the paper. While you may use them in your presentation to make a point, they do not belong in a scholarly paper. 18. Avoid padding phrases. Several types of padding: a. Flowery opening phrases, such as: "It should be noted that…". "As a matter of fact, …" "Another example of this is…" -†just state the next example! b. Repeating your reference information: Example: "According to author Bob Smith in a study done in 2004 by the XXX Group, …". Your inline citation number will allow me to go see who did the study, and when. This is unnecessary padding. 19. Avoid repetition: Example-†"As was stated earlier,…" If you stated it earlier, don't repeat it again! This is padding.