Instructions: The Draft Research Paper is due at the end of
Week 5 of the course (6 – 8 pages not including the Cover Page or the
References listing – APA 6th Edition formatting). The draft will count as 15%
of the final grade and the final will count as 25% of the final grade. The
paper will follow a conventional paper format (Cover page, Body of Paper with
introduction, discussion / analysis / argument / body, conclusion, and
references pages). See the Writing Expectations contained in the Policies
section of the Syllabus for specific focus areas / guidance as well as
conforming with APA 6th edition style guidelines. The objective of creating a
draft research paper includes the desire to review your progress and to provide
feedback on key aspects that may require additional research and / or
development. As this is a progressive research paper activity, within this
draft paper your cost-effective security strategy, underpinned by security
metrics, should be assessing and identifying issues associated with your
selected research topic discussion. Further, initial insights should be
emerging at this point that will turn into recommended mitigation actions in
your final research paper.
Submission Instructions: See the Writing Instructions in
your Syllabus as well as inserted below. Please submit a Word document in the
defined format to your Assignment folder by 11:55PM, Sunday, EST. Your writing
assignment will automatically be run through TurnItIn (just submit, you do
nothing else) to aid in preparing for your Final Research Paper, and also as a
tool to help with proper citation of research source material and appropriate
attribution of that material. The level of expectation is; All submission need
to be under 15% total originality score, with each individual references no
higher than 2% originality score.
Grading: The grading rubric that is part of the course
Syllabus will be used for all writing assignments. Please review this rubric to
ensure you are aware of the items that will be assessed as part of each
assignment.
