Term Paper Proposal Final Paper

The research paper topic will be selected by the student with approval of the instructor via the proposal. That is you had a virtually unlimited choice here. That is why the proposal was so critical so you would narrow your topic to something that can be handled reasonably well in an 11 week term. If you did not have a proposal, the topic for the paper has to relate to some issue related to security assessment, policy, or risk assessment, and your introduction, regardless if you had a proposal or not, must clearly lay out what the focus of the paper and what the paper accomplished. Ideally, you will have one or more introductory paragraphs, one or two laying our the key points of the paper, and finally a paragraph laying out what the paper accomplished and transitioning to the body. This is why the introduction is usually the last thing revised.

For this class you will need to identify you issue or problem and offer both lessons from the arguments you make and solutions or recommendations to resolve the issue or problem. That is I don't want just a lot of background or information, but a clear problem statement and a clear solution or recommendation or recommendations at the end, fully supported by what you present in the body.

There is no length minimum or maximum. This is a 300 level course and a paper commensurate with 300 level work is expected. The paper length is determined by the parameters the student sets in his or her introduction and the amount of writing necessary to fully develop the topic, and the conclusion once reaches. A paper is never, in the real world, determined by some number someone pulls from the air. All sources of information must be documented and selected bibliography of all sources used or referenced expected. Strayer requires APA format. In short, a paper is as long or as short as it needs to be, no more, no less.