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Research Guidelines

Research Guidelines. MIS 210 Research Proposal/Paper Guidelines. Introduction

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Research Guidelines

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  1. Research Guidelines

  2. MIS 210Research Proposal/Paper Guidelines • Introduction • This section should discuss the topic you are interested in researching. For your proposal try to keep this section to one page. For your final paper, it may be longer. DO NOT start this section with “I want to do research on...” Instead provide a description of your area of interest. At the end of this section discuss why you feel this topic should be researched. What is the problem you are addressing? Why should your audience (colleagues, academics, people in the field) care about this topic?

  3. MIS 210Research Proposal/Paper Guidelines • Body • This section should discuss the methodology you used, the literature you reviewed and your findings. This should not be simply a list of articles, but a clear and thorough discussion based on your review of the relevant literature. This section should support your statements in the introduction (i.e., this is important because...).

  4. Research Paper Guidelines • Conclusion • What do you conclude from your research? Why? • Recommendations • What are your recommendation- for industry? for future research? any others? • Bibliography • Should always start on a separate page. Alphabetical, by author.

  5. Modified APA Format • The work of Rogers (1994) and researchers in other disciplines have been used to help IT researchers build a theory of technological innovation.

  6. Modified APA Format • Since its inception, the diffusion of email has grown at a phenomenal rate. In 1996, the number of users was estimated to be fifty million, with an additional one million being added each month (Romm et. al., 1996). According to one source, there is an estimated growth to 135 million users by 2001 (Johnson and Smith, 1998). Another source states that it is expected to grow to 300 million users by 2003 (Ruiz, 2000).

  7. Modified APA Format • Innovation has been defined in a variety of ways by numerous authors. To Thompson (1965, p.2), it is “the generation, acceptance, and implementation of new ideas, processes, products or services”.

  8. Bibliography • Single Author: • Ajzen, Icek, 1991, “The Theory of Planned Behavior,” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, (50), pp. 179-211. • Multiple Authors: • Brass, Daniel J, Kenneth D. Butterfield, and Bruce C. Skaggs,1998, “Relationships and Unethical Behavior: A Social Network Perspective,” Academy of Management Review, January, (23:1), pp. 14-31.

  9. Bibliography • Book: • Babbie, Earl, 1995, The Practice of Social Research, 7th ed., Wadsworth Publishing Company, Belmont, CA. • Web Citations:Thornburg, David D., 2000, “Technology in K-12 Education: Envisioning A New Future,” US Dept. of Education/Technology White Paper Revising the National Education Technology Plan. [On-Line] http://www.air.org/forum/wpapers.htm. [2000, November 22].

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