Category: Writing

HI5033 – Individual Assignment Instructions Academic Integrity Information Holmes Institute is committed to ensuring and upholding academic integrity. All assessment must comply with academic integrity guidelines. Important academic integrity breaches include plagiarism, collusion, copying, impersonation, contract cheating, data fabrication and falsification. Please learn about academic integrity and consult your teachers with any questions. Violating academic integrity is serious and punishable by penalties that range from deduction of marks, failure of the assessment task or unit involved, suspension of course enrolment, or cancellation of course enrolment. Format Instructions • Most assessments must be in MS Word format with no spacing, 11-pt Calibri font and at least 2cm margins on all four sides with appropriate section headings and page numbers. • You must name your file with the Unit Code and Student ID (e.g. “HI5003- GWA1995”). • Check that you submit the correct document as special consideration is not granted if you make a mistake. • Student ID needs to be indicated on the cover page. Penalties • All work must be submitted on Blackboard by the due date and time along with a completed Assessment Cover Page. Late penalties apply. • Reference sources must be cited in the text of the report, and listed appropriately at the end in a reference list using Holmes Institute Adapted Harvard Referencing. Penalties are associated with incorrect citation and referencing. HI5033 – Individual Assignment Assignment Description This assessment requires individual completion. Students are expected to complete a critique and conduct a literature review to discuss a contemporary issue relating to Database Systems and identify appropriate approaches to address this issue. The topic is “Mobile Database Management Systems: Ensuring Data Security and Efficiency”. Each student is required to search the literature and find a minimum of ten (10) academic research papers (references) related to this topic. Subsequently, the student must critically analyse the selected references and provide an in-depth discussion on how they reflect the topic. This assessment is worth 40% of the unit’s grade and is a major assessment. Students are advised to begin working on this assessment as soon as possible. There is only one deliverable for this assessment Deliverable Weight Week Due Final Submission 40% Week 12 The day and time of the due week that the assessment must be submitted will be announced by your unit coordinator. Deliverable Description You need to submit the final version of your assignment in Week 12. The structure of the final report consists of 4 sections as follows: • Introduction State the purpose and objectives of the report. • Discussion Discuss the references, and critically analyse them and discuss how they reflect the topic. • Conclusion Summarize your findings by emphasizing the key points of the report. • Reference Provide the list of references following the Adapted Harvard Referencing style. Your literature review should present the current state of knowledge in the specific area of the topic, and it should have a narrative that flows smoothly from one paragraph to the next. Additionally, the final submission should consist of no fewer than 2,500 words. HI5033 – Individual Assignment Marking Rubric Criteria Fail Pass Credit Distinction High Distinction Presentation (6 marks) Poor presentation. Professional presentation and well written. Professional presentation with good writing skills. Professional presentation with very good writing skills. Professional presentation with excellent writing skills. Introduction (5 marks) Vague introduction. Objectives are not clear. Acceptable brief introduction. Good introduction to the research area and objectives of the paper has been clearly outlined. Very good introduction to the research area and objectives of the paper has been clearly outlined. Good arguments built with quality references. An excellent thorough introduction to the research area and objectives of the paper has been clearly outlined. Excellent arguments built with quality references. Discussion (20 marks) Did not demonstrate ability to think critically and did not source reference material appropriately. Some level of critical analysis done and sourced some reference material appropriately. Demonstrate ability to think critically and sourced reference material appropriately. Demonstrated very good ability to think critically and sourced reference material appropriately. Demonstrated excellent ability to think critically and sourced reference material appropriately. Conclusion (5 marks) Argument is confused and disjointed. Mostly consistent logical and convincing. Logic acceptable follow with suitable arguments. The logic is very clear and easy to follow with strong arguments. Excellent logical sequence and commendable conclusions. Referencing (4 marks) Lacks consistency with many errors. Generally good referencing style. Clear styles with excellent source of references. Very good sources of references. Correct format followed. Excellent sources of references. The correct format followed. HI5033 – Individual Assignment Student Assessment Citation and Referencing Rules Adapted Harvard Referencing Rules Holmes has implemented a revised Harvard approach to referencing. The following rules apply: 1. Reference sources in assignments are limited to sources that provide full-text access to the source’s content for lecturers and markers. 2. The reference list must be located on a separate page at the end of the essay and titled: “References”. 3. The reference list must include the details of all the in-text citations, arranged A-Z alphabetically by author surname with each reference numbered (1 to 10, etc.) and each reference MUST include a hyperlink to the full text of the cited reference source. For example: 1. Hawking, P., McCarthy, B. & Stein, A. 2004. Second Wave ERP Education, Journal of Information Systems Education, Fall, http://jise.org/Volume15/n3/JISEv15n3p327.pdf 4. All assignments must include in-text citations to the listed references. These must include the surname of the author/s or name of the authoring body, year of publication, page number of the content, and paragraph where the content can be found. For example, “The company decided to implement an enterprise-wide data warehouse business intelligence strategies (Hawking et al., 2004, p3(4)).” Non-Adherence to Referencing Rules Where students do not follow the above rules: 1. For students who submit assignments that do not comply with the rules, a 10% penalty will be applied. 2. As per the Student Handbook, late penalties will apply each day after the student/s has been notified of the due date. 3. Students who comply with rules and the citations are “fake” may be reported for academic misconduct. HI5033 – Individual Assignment Submission Guidelines Your document should be a single MS Word or OpenOffice document containing your report. Do not use PDF as a submission format. All submissions will be submitted through the safeAssign facility in Blackboard. Submission boxes linked to SafeAssign will be set up in the Units Blackboard Shell. Assignments not submitted through these submission links will not be considered. Submissions must be made by the due date and time (which will be in the session detailed above) and determined by your Unit coordinator. Submissions made after the due date and time will be penalized per day late (including weekend days) according to Holmes Institute policies. The SafeAssign similarity score will be used in determining the level, if any, of plagiarism. SafeAssign will check conference web-sites, Journal articles, the Web and your own class members submissions for plagiarism. You can see your SafeAssign similarity score (or match) when you submit your assignment to the appropriate drop-box. If this is a concern you will have a chance to change your assignment and resubmit. However, re-submission is only allowed prior to the submission due date and time. After the due date and time have elapsed your assignment will be graded as late. Submitted assignments that indicate a high level of plagiarism will be penalized according to the Holmes Academic Misconduct policy, there will be no exceptions. Thus, plan early and submit early to take advantage of the re-submission feature. You can make multiple submissions, but please remember we grade only the last submission, and the date and time you submitted will be taken from that submission.
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