Cyber Security and Terrorism Research Paper

Paper Checklist

1. Introduction

· The paper has a heading stating “INTRODUCTION” (Check)

· Intro explains why your research is relevant to HSEM (Check)

· Identify the thesis statement: THE THESIS STATEMENT IS THE QUESTION THAT YOU are answering or the focus of the paper. (Check)

· Identify sequentially, how the thesis statement will be addressed. (Check)

2. Literature Review

· The research paper has a heading stating, “Literature Review” (Check)

· The literature review section has an introductory statement. (Check)

· The literature review is organized (you could use heading to organize the themes that you identified from the review of the literature. (Check)

· The review discusses what has or, has not been covered by the literature and explains the consequences of such focus or lack of focus (Check)

· The review of the literature is supported by substantial evidence i.e. in-text citations (Check)

· The literature review section has a conclusion statement (Check)

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3. Research Method

· Research Design (Heading)

· Discuss the research design that is being used

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· Explain what it is

· Discuss why and how this design is suited to your research topic

· Sampling methodology (Heading)

· What is or are the sampling methodology that is or was used?

· Define what the sampling methodology is

· Why did you use this sampling methodology?

· Data collection (Heading)

· Discuss how the date for this research was collected

· Which databases did you use, and why?

· Did you use the library, and why?

· Did you conduct interviews or surveys, and why?

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· Data analysis (Heading)

· Discuss when the data analysis began

· Discuss how the collected data was analyzed

· Annotated bibliography

· Why did you do this?

· What was the outcome?

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· Mind maps (discuss this technique only if it was used)

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· How did you do this?

· What was the outcome

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· Outline

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· Limitations (Heading)

· Discuss any limitations

· Sample size

· Personal bias

· Sampling

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4. Research Findings

5. Discussion

6. Conclusion

7. Recommendations

8. Reference

· The research paper has a heading stating “REFERENCE” (Check)

· All the references ARE in APA style. (Check)

· All references are cited in-text (Check)

9. Grammar

· Read the paper once (Check)

· Have someone else read the essay for grammatical errors (Check)

Please note that: 

· you will earn a zero for every missed assignment (and you cannot resubmit the work)

· Students will automatically earn a maximum of 50% of the points for every assignment that is over 30% plagiarized and a zero if the work is over 50% plagiarized. 

· plagiarism is the unaccredited use, whether intentional or unintentional, of someone else’s words or ideas.

· plagiarism also includes the resubmission of your personal work that had been submitted in a previous semester in this course or in any other class unless otherwise discussed with the professor and, approved by the professor.

· you will lose points if your work is not supported by evidence i.e. in-text citations and references proper grammar and analysis is the minimum expectation for all writing assignments

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