Information Systems Department College of Computing Sciences New Jersey Institute of Technology CIS677-102/4: Information Systems Principles, Spring 2005 Professor Bieber
A Public Research University

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Reading Summaries

Due Date

The summaries will be due by class time on the Tuesday that a reading is assigned.

Motivation

For many students, this is the first course where you are reading a lot of complex articles. The purpose of this assignment is to help you think through the articles you are reading.

Assignment

For every long article (not textbook chapter) you read for the class, write an entry within your team's conference on WebBoard. Post it as a reply to the appropriate article category. The articles to summarize are noted on the course schedule.

What to write

Do NOT summarize the article. Instead your entry should be two paragraphs with the following categories from the article review guidelines.

1. The first paragraph should describe the article's results.
2. The second paragraph should describe the article's contributions.

Individual assignment

This assignment is part of the "Readiness Assessment Process". It is meant to be a tool to help you understand the articles well. Understanding the articles well, in turn, should help you do better on the individual RATs, and better prepare you to help your team in the team RATs and activities.

Therefore, this is an individual assignment. Please write these entries yourself. If I find that entries are too similar, I will start asking you to post them on turnitin.com...