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Quiz 4. USE APA FORMAT.

Instructions:  There are three (2) topic areas listed below that are designed to measure your knowledge level specific to learning outcome.  

State-wide and in most professional industries, there has been a mandate that college students be more proficient in their writing. While this is not a writing class, all writing assignments will be graded for grammar, syntax and typographical correctness to help address this mandate.

 

Pay attention to what you are being asked to do. For example, to describe does not mean to list, but to talk about or illustrate in more than two or three sentences, providing appropriate arguments for your responses.  A verifiable current event  (less than 4 years old) relevant to at least one of the topics you respond to is a fundamental component of your quiz as well.  You cannot use information from the text book or any book/article by the author of the text book as a current event.  Make sure that your reference has a date of publication.   find and include at least one reference and reference citation to a current event less than 4 years old (a reference with no date (n.d.) is not acceptable   This requires a reference citation in the text of your answer and a reference at the end of the question to which the reference applies.  You must include some information obtained from the reference in your answer.  The references must be found on the internet and you must include a URL in your reference so that the reference can be verified. 

 

You should type your responses directly under the appropriate question. 

 

1. Do you believe that a coherent and comprehensive code of conduct for computer professionals is possible?  (b) If so, which of the codes mentioned in this chapter roughly resembles such a code? Explain your choice. Please elaborate (beyond a yes or no answer) and provide your “theoretical”  rationale in support of your responses  (knowledge)

 

2. According to Gotterbarn some of the criticism leveled against professional codes might be eliminated if we think of them as serving three important, but distinct, functions. Name and discuss them.  Please elaborate (beyond a yes or no answer) and provide your “theoretical” rationale in support of your responses  knowledge)