Cybersecurity Threat Landscape Team Assignment

CMIT 495, Paper Guidelines

This is applicable to ALL papers submitted during this class session.

Guidelines

· Every paper MUST conform to APA Standards and will be graded as such. Below are additional requirements for every paper.

· Resources for APA:

· UMGC Library - https://sites.umgc.edu/library/libhow/gethelp-citing.cfm

· Purdue University - https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html

· Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th Edition – amazon . (If you continue with your Master’s Program at UMGC, this book will be useful. Your Professor owns it and will reference this book).

· Every submitted paper has a title, author, course and section, followed by the Professors information on the first page.  The title is centered, three inches from top of the page.  The title must be centered in all caps and be the Title of the assignment due.  The course and section identifiers must be on the second line below the title, centered.

· Every submitted paper should have a Table of Contents (TOC). The second page is where the TOC should be next, followed by the body and then the reference pages.

· Note: Only the Body of the paper (e.g. not the Title Page, TOC, or Reference page) count towards page count.

· Text must be in Times or Times New Roman font, 11pt, 1.5 line or double spacing.

· In the Body of paper, pages must be numbered at the bottom, with the page number centered right on the page.

· When the paper states page count, the paper must be a full page to qualify -half pages do not count). Example if minimum page count is 5, the body of the paper MUST BE a full/complete five pages to count. It must also conform to APA standards.

· At least five authoritative/scholarly sources are a minimum per paper. Outside references are required (anonymous authors, Wikipedia, any news site/source, any blog site, etc. are not acceptable as scholarly sources).

· Appropriate citations are required. See the syllabus regarding plagiarism policies.

· Original Papers are to be submitted in word document format, not pdf or alternate format.

· The Turnitin Originality Report IN FULL must be submitted in the assignments folder in Adobe .pdf format.

· This will be graded on quality of research topic, quality of paper information, use of citations, grammar and sentence structure, and creativity