Your instructors are:

• Section A: (course coordinator)
• Section B:
• Section C:

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Course handouts

• First-day handout

CISC 497 Research Guide

• http://library.queensu.ca/research/guide/cisc-497 (courtesy of Mr. Wenyan Wu)

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Style requirements for written work

Adhere carefully to the American Psychological Association (APA) style standard for formatting and referencing your three short (500 - 700 words) papers and your major paper. It is your responsibility to follow the standard, details of which are easily found on the Web. (See, for example, http://www.thewritedirection.net/apaguide.net/apaguide.pdf for a handy, printable guide.) The APA standard quite precisely determines the "look" of a paper. For example, it specifies:

• a narrow selection of fonts and font stylings (in your paper, use 12pt Times New Roman or an equivalent font throughout);
• double-spacing throughout, but with no extra spaces between lines anywhere (including on your title page and reference list);
• so-called "parenthetical referencing" in which your in-text citations are surrounded, in whole or in part, by parentheses (the "round brackets" surrounding this remark), as in "(Hawthorne & Kim, 2006, Software Patents section, para. 3)";
• the format for a reference list.

The APA standard also provides a specification for a cover page. In the interests of saving paper, please omit the cover page from your short paper submissions. Your instructor may, instead, give you a modified format for the title appearing on your first page of text, such as,

Online Dangers For Children
Gem Ling, CISC497B
Week 2, Topic 3

Note: The precise format for this title may vary by section! Also note that the major paper is to have an APA-styled title page.

A well-annotated example paper in APA style may be found at http://www.mhc.ab.ca/library/howtoguides/APASamplePaperAug2007.pdf.