April 04, 2007
Information Society Watch
IT for Change has launched a beta version of Information Society Watch, a resource portal providing a Southern perspective on information society (IS) issues. IS Watch attempts to address the imperative of catalysing new perspectives, frameworks and concepts rooted in the development experience of the global South. It is a
response to the need for building a Southern discourse on the information society phenomenon, which so far has mostly been interpreted by Northern actors.
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April 02, 2007
COMS 326 Final Lit Review Notes
COMS 326 - Literature Review – Prof. Shade – Notes – April 3 2007
New, mild extension!: Final paper due April 10 – 14. Email to me at professor.shade@gmail.com and I will confirm receipt. Please name your file as yourlastname_326.doc.
The lit review is worth 40% of your grade. Your final paper mark will be based both on the content of the paper (critique, supportive argument, etc.) as well as your writing style (grammar, spelling, structure). The weight toward each element of the paper will be 60% content and 40% style.
Please provide complete citations for all of the sources you are consulting for the lit review. This includes: full author name, title of book or article, name of journal with volume and issue number --if available; date published, page numbers for journal articles.
Please use quotations judiciously! You may quote, but do so in moderation and provide page number for quote. Consider paraphrasing and providing page numbers in lieu of excessive quotations.
A literature review reviews secondary source material on a particular subject, issue, or theory. It provides a critical assessment of the literature, and provides a useful summary of scholarly work, in terms of the research questions asked, theoretical point of view, and methodological considerations.
Students are asked to write one literature review of 3,000 words (exclusive of the bibliographic citations). You will be taking one or several of the weekly themes and surveying some relevant scholarly articles, books, and other sources that are applicable to your research topic. Use the readings for the weekly theme you choose, plus identify no less than 5 and no more than 8 other articles, books, or other sources located in the Concordia University library.
Information to consult on writing lit reviews can be found here:
University of California Santa Cruz, How to Write a Literature Review, http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/literaturereview.html
Another useful guide is: University of Wisconsin Writing Center, Writer's Handbook: Academic Writing: Reviews of Literature, 2001, http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/ReviewofLiterature.html
The Concordia University Library has some excellent resource guides at http://www.library.concordia.ca/help/howto/#.
Citation guidelines can be found at http://library.concordia.ca/help/howto/citations.html
Plagiarism will be taken seriously. Look at the Undergraduate Calendar Code of Conduct at http://registrar.concordia.ca/calendar
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