CS4440 Emerging Database Technologies

(Fall 2010)

 

Instructor: Professor Ling Liu


Reading Summary Post

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Instructions/Suggestions:

Reading summaries count 20% of your total grade. You are required to submit one reading summary (critique) per week at TSquare. Late summaries will not be accepted. Here are some specific guidelines about the grading of reading summaries:

  • Reading summaries are to be marked pass (P), pass plus (P+), and pass minus ((P-). A pass represents a good summary to the assigned reading. You are encouraged to provide critical feedback that is well founded, but be sensitive to the way in which you write it. Poorly worded criticism will be graded negatively if we find it.
  • The pass minus grade is to be assigned in limited circumstances in which either the summary is incomplete (e.g., one component is left uncommented completely) or it is clear from the summary that the student did not read the material or the summary contains poorly worded criticism.
  • The pass plus grade should be given to a summary in which the student goes beyond a basic review and presents insight that is thoughtful and well expressed.
  • In principle, very few pass minus grades are given, and the number of pass plus grades will vary significantly depending on the reading, as some readings are more provocative than the others.
  • Cooperation and discussion on assigned course readings are allowed, but verbatim copies of the same summary will be considered cheating. So you may talk about the readings as much as you like with one another, but each student is responsible for writing his/her own summary. If text is copied from another source, you should credit the source by referencing the source correctly. Verbatim copying from uncredited sources is plagiarism. If a case of plagiarism or any form of academic dishonesty is found, the guilty parties involved will receive a zero score for the assignment. Repeated offenders will be referred to the Dean's office.

 

Reading Summary Format:

 

The submission should be done through TSquare under the reading assignment for the current week given at

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~lingliu/courses/cs4440/09Fall/lectures.htm

For example the first reading assignment will be in the second week of the class and the critique should be submitted under “[CS4440] Week <2> Reading Critique”.

 

The summary of your reading critique should be in .txt file format, and the file name should follow the format:

 

last 4 digits of your GTID# followed by “_” and followed by the paper assignment# and followed by .txt.
Here is an example: 1234_2.txt for the second reading assignment of the student with 1234 as the last four digits of his student ID.

 

Since the paper reading started from the second week (See course website under Note & Schedule), the paper assignment# for the second week will be 1. The total number of reading assignments for the semester is 10, one per week over the selected 10 weeks.

Here is another example: the 4th critique summary of the student with 1234 as the last four digits of his ID should be: 1234_4.txt. Please type the full title and authors of the paper for which you are writting a critique.

Reading Summaries by Students

For privacy concerns, summaries are only indexed by the last three digits of Student ID number (the ones you use on Oscar) and student names are deleted from the summaries. The reading critiques (reading summaries) for each of the 10 weeks will be posted below: