CSCI 10
Untangling the Web:
A Social Analysis of the Internet
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Paper & Project Guidelines
The guidelines for projects from MIT course 6.805 and Duke course 082S/182S loosely apply to our course. To summarize, they state (see their web pages for more information):
Your research paper or project should be a substantial piece of work. I expect to see high-quality work with good writing, thoughtful commentary, and clear themes.
I am certainly interested in your opinions and ideas. But you should treat this paper as research and analysis, not just venting or making unsubstantiated assertions. On the other hand, I do expect you to have opinions and a point of view on your topic -- not to just write a book report or a summary of what other people have said.
Your paper should have a thesis, i.e., an idea, claim, or argument that you are putting forward and defending in the paper. I expect that your paper will start out by stating the thesis in the first one or two paragraphs, and that you will proceed to support the thesis in a focused and coherent way.
Important Dates
Paper and project proposals (just a paragraph or two stating your intended topic) are due on Friday, January 11th at 4pm. Final papers are due Friday, January 25th at 4pm. Failure to submit the final paper will result in failure in the course. Late work will not be accepted.
Potential Topics
These topics are not at all definitive, they are meant to provide a guide to interesting topics we may not have addressed in depth at this point. (Many of these topics came from the CS 082S/182S course that was taught last spring at Duke University.) Any topic can be proposed. Be creative!
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