CS 4001
Term Paper Outline
Due: |
Tuesday, October 20th |
Format: |
12 pt font, double spaced |
Grading criteria: |
- Completeness
- Writing
- Quality of research
- Insight into the issues
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Write an outline for your term paper. The outline will be structured as a series of major and minor section headings. Use as many levels of sub-headings as you need. In each section, you will include a list of points to make. The points should have citations to the bibliography. Your outline might look something like this (with more detail):
- Should cell phone use be banned in cars?
- Why the issue is important (Waits 2006)
- The controversy: is it really dangerous to use a cell phone while driving? (Bell 2004, Hancock 1999)
- Background: the history of cell phone use
- First mobile phones invented in the 70s (Dylan 1995, Springsteen 2002)
- Increasing ubiquity of cell phones (Bowie 2005)
- Technological underpinnings and how they affect the controversy
- Talking on a cell phone is different than talking to a person in the car, because the person pauses when the driver needs to pay full attention. (Costello 2000)
- Dialing a number is the most dangerous part of use in cars (Twain 1998)
- Voice dialing is safer (Ibid.)
- The history of legislation regulating cell phone use in cars
- In the United states:
- First legislation in the US in place xxx said xxx (Macintyre 2004)
- Second legislation in the US in place xxx said xxx (Amos 2002)
- <etc.>
- Legislation in Europe is quite different (Summers 2006)
- <etc.>
Include a complete bibliography in your outline. Your bibliography should be formatted in correct APA style. See the appendix of the Writing Arguments book for a guide to APA citation format.
By the time you hand in your outline, most of your research should be done.