The report should have no less than 15 pages, double-spaced and not counting the title page, table of contents, bibliography, or any figures. For a research paper you should use a bibliography of no fewer than five sources that appear as references in the body. Your report should use headings and sub-headings to reflect its structure. Please proofread your report carefully to ensure that it contains no spelling or grammatical errors. Use the APA format where appropriate.
Please also note that your submission may be checked by an automated system to ensure that it is not a duplicate submission in other courses and that it follows the academic integrity policies. If your work is related to another course work, the content should be substantially (at least 2/3 of the work) different. You should also pay close attention to crediting the words or ideas of others. Try as much as you can to rephrase the original words from a publication. When you have to use the original words from other publications, remember to indicate using quotation marks. When you use the ideas from a publication, you should indicate clearly by citations, so as to make your own contribution clearly separable from other publications. For more information about Standards of Academic Integrity, refer to the course syllabus and the NSU Student Handbook (available at http://www.nova.edu/studentaffairs/forms/studenthbk_aug2017.pdf).
A general structure of the final paper should include the following sections. Note that the actual structure may vary depending on the topic area and the focus of your reviewed paper.
1. Title of the paper
2. Abstract and key words
3. General introduction of the problem area
4. A concise problem statement
5. Solutions to the problem
6. Your critical review on the solutions
7. Summary and conclusion
8. List of references
****Topic for paper is attatched****
My professor’s comments were:
Thanks for working on the topic proposal. You may choose to work on security control, but the current topic is way too broad. I believe most of the contents can be found in a textbook. For a research paper, I would like to see your critical review on the frontier of the academia. You may limit the discussion on a particular control mechanism and provide in-depth analysis on the technical aspects. Note that this is a small paper for a technical course. Try not to spend too many contents on general discussions. The more specific the topic, the better the quality of the topic proposal.
Some of the references you use are rather dated; you should try to identify some recent publications.
