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Instructions

Your research paper will be a MS Word document that will include:

  1. Title page in APA style/format containing your full name, course number and section, date, project title.

  2. Content pages:  The content pages will be in APA style/format. The content will be equivalent to a minimum of 1500 words. The title page is not a content page. It should contain the headings and few lines of content beneath those headings. For example, heading 1 is Introduction, the content contains the introduction to your paper topic; heading 2 is Current Use, the content contains how and where the technology is used; heading 3 is for security aspects of your technology, heading 4 is for ethical and social implications related to your topic, and heading 5 is Future Use, the content contains how the technology will be used in future, and heading 6 is the conclusion.

  3. Reference page: Any direct or indirect reference within the paper to the work of others must be appropriately cited in APA style/format in the text. Failure to do so constitutes plagiarism. The reference page should list:

  •  At least six references relevant to research on the chosen topic (minimum)

  •  At least three different reference types required – web sites, papers, books, journals, magazines, newspapers, interviews, etc.

  •  For electronic references, you must include the URL as an active link to the source/database and the date you visited the page. Note: Where a magazine, journal article or book reference has been located via a full-text online database, list the original publication details of the reference AS WELL AS the name of the database, its URL and the date the reference was accessed.

  •  Each reference must be annotated. An annotated bibliography includes a summary and evaluation of each of the sources (e.g. Topics covered in the reference and an assessment on the reliability of the material). Annotations for each source are written in paragraph form. Each annotation must be at least five (5) sentences in length.