Assignment  - Word Research Paper

Word Processing

You are to write an information technology related research paper with a minimum of 1000 words using Microsoft Word 2016. Any topic that you would study in this course would be appropriate for this paper.

For instance, you may wish to write an informative paper on a particular information technology, or you may wish to critique a particular technology, or you may wish to compare and contrast similar technologies. The only mandatory requirement for the topic is that it must be related to Information Technology.

Basic Requirements:

All of the following requirements must be met in order to receive a grade on the paper. If the paper does not satisfy any of the following, it will receive a grade of zero.

The paper must be a minimum of 1000 words in content as displayed by Microsoft Word (when highlighting the content areas). The title page, table of contents, bibliography, and plagiarism statement are not considered part of the word count! It's better to play this on the safe side, and write more rather than trying to minimally meet this requirement.

The topic of the paper must be related to information technology.

The primary source of the paper must come from one of the required sites.

The document submitted must be in Word 2016 format.

The file must be submitted on Blackboard on time. No late submissions will be accepted.

Part 1. Research

Begin by finding an interesting technology-related article from one of the seven news resources listed below to serve as the topic for your paper.

This will act as your "primary source" for your paper. The article you choose should have been written this year; that is, the publication year should be 2017. Make note of the article's title, publication, publication date, author, and URL to use in your citations.
Any primary source that does not have an author or publication date is not acceptable.

Once your primary source and the topic for your paper has been established, use the resources available from FSU Libraries to find at least four additional sources of information on your topic:

One source must be another web site published by an authority on the topic (you may use the above seven sites, for instance, to find this authority). This source need not come from the FSU library database.

There must be at least two recent database articles (published within the last year) from databases provided at the FSU Library's database index.

At least one book published in 2011 or later (we will only look at the year of publication) - you can use the search feature at the top of the Libraries page to help find appropriate titles. This can be a hard copy book or an eBook.

Note that you may need to use different, but related, keywords to find all five resources. For example, you could find thousands of web pages with a Google search on keywords "ransomware", but the same search at FSU Libraries might turn up nothing. In that case, you might try related keywords like "cryptocurrency ransom", or something more general like "impact of computer crime on society" in order to find a book related to your topic.

Learn as much as you can about your topic from the sources. You needn't quote directly from your resources (except where instructed in part 2), although if you do, you will need to use quotation marks for a short quote, or a block quotation for a larger one.

There are several citation styles used for various types of research. For this paper, you are required to use MLA style.

Paper Formatting Instructions: Follow all of the instructions in Part 2 to format the paper you write for this assignment.

Part 2. Word Processing

Open a new document in Word 2016. You should choose the "Blank Document" template for your paper.

Name the file using the format of "YOURID.docx", where YOURID is your FSU identifier.