Please note that a research review (that is part of your project) has to be planned
first. Find using the library databases like ABIInform at least 30 sources, explore
their titles and abstracts, then reduce them to 15, browse through their abstracts
and full text, from which you need to select the needed relevant sources which you
have to read carefully . Note that at least seventy percent of the selected final
sources have to come from refereed journal papers and the rest may come from
trade magazines or electronic media. Please note that you need to do some cross
referencing between the plan of your paper and the content of the selected articles
before you start to write as I explained in class. This will provide you with several
supporting references for each point in your plan of the paper. Avoid writing a
sequence of summaries of several papers that have no analytic value. Provide also
your assessment of the importance of a particular statement. Use references in the
text, do not just list them at the end. Use references to provide credibility to your
own work, to give credit to others who have written on the subject and also to
provide a roadmap for someone to continue your work in the future.
One of the dimensions of our rubric for the final papers includes evaluations of your
writing styles . Further instructions on that can be again found in:
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/. Your report needs to be in Word with clear
formatting of a title, author, subject name and indication that this is an individual research
paper.
Submit the project report as a Word file as the product of project 1 through WebCT.

All projects will be virtually presented (using PowerPoint ) by each team .
The body of the project aper has to start with a proper title, list of the authors and the
subject, a summary abstract (written at the end of the writing process), list of the content of
the project paper (each item needs to be linked as a hyperlink to a respective bookmark on
the section titles in the document as described in class ) , introduction and sections with
clear self explanatory specific titles, followed by a conclusion and references.
Every student will evaluate the performance of each team (besides own) using a rubric for
presentations and also the team work performance of each project team member using a different
rubric – both to be provided to you by your instructor.

Please note that you need to consult with your instructor by Vista email on the first draft of your
projects before submitting them. An excellent project should reflect the following requirements:

1.It needs to show that the authors have investigated professionally the problem, including the
review for disasters of the real health care system (see chapter 14 of the book for further
guidelines)
2. The report needs to be supported by relevant literature references for its research section.
3. The size of the report without references should be not exceeding 4000 words but should not be
less than 2500 words. However the quality of the report reflecting application of the body of
knowledge on Information Systems covered in class and adherence to the guidelines matters
more than the size please.

You will be working in groups of several students determined by your instructor.

The best projects are expected to participate in the School Student Research Excellence Expo.

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