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HI5033 Database Systems - Holmes Institute

Objectives

This assessment item relates to the unit learning outcomes as in the unit descriptor. This assessment is designed to improve student research and writing skills and to give students experience in researching the literature on a specific topic relevant to the Unit of Study subject matter. Students will be expected to complete a literature review to discuss a contemporary Database storage, access, design or Information design issue which an IS professional may experience. Students will critically analyze current academic papers then present their work in a detailed literature review and analysis.

Instructions

This assessment will be completed individually. All students must have a different topic. Students can choose to write about the same technology, but the approach and the thrust of each paper must be different. To ensure this uniqueness, each student must decide on a topic and email their topic and title to their tutor within the first 2 weeks. Your tutor will respond with an approval or with a message that you will either need to choose a different topic or to change the thrust of your paper. You tutor may decide to do this for you. Once it has been approved you should begin by working towards the first deliverable.

Outline Submission

The outline deliverable is due in week 4 and is the outline of the paper you intend to write.

The outline will consist of: the title, your name and a list of the section headings that will be included in your Literature Review. You should include at least 5 section headings which are relevant to the topic you have been allocated, (this list should not include either 'Introduction' or 'Conclusion', though these can be included apart from the 5 others). You need to include at least five preliminary references and indicate in which section they will be included. The references must be relevant to the topic assigned.

Thus once allocated your topic, you need consider how you will structure the literature review so you can devise a list or headings. You must have access the full-text article of any reference you use. You cannot use a reference where you only have access to the abstract and title, or a small section of the paper.

Draft Submission

The draft submission is due in week 7 and continues on from the outline submission above with the same topic your group was allocated.

For the draft submission you are to write an Introduction, consisting of at least 2 paragraphs, and you are to write one major paragraph for each of the five sections that you identified in the outline submission.

Your introduction and other paragraphs should cite references from your reference list, and your reference list for this submission should include your previous references and at least another 5 references which are relevant to the topic allocated. So your reference list should contain at least 10 references at this stage. All references must be in Harvard format including the in-text citations. For each reference you must include a link to the full text of the reference. This link must be working and cannot be to just an abstract and title, or only a section of the paper you are referencing. This must be a direct link, we will not follow multiple links trying to find the paper.

If for some reason you decide to change one of the headings from the outline submission, you need to write why this has changed, and are to follow the rules above by providing one major paragraph for the new section. The section needs to be relevant to the topic and of course your associated references need to be relevant.

Attachment:- Database Systems.rar