You will write a 4-page (single-spaced) white paper that will bring together some of your thoughts from the presentations, readings, and discussions throughout the course. The white paper may be a position paper or a proposal for future research. As the purpose of this paper is to bring together material from the course, it need not consider papers outside the set that are presented in class. However, your paper should cite and discuss papers we read in the course.
The bibliography is not included in the 4 pages; your bibliography should be a 5th page.
By November 3rd, you should write a thesis statement and outline for your white paper, and meet with me about it. The white paper is due by December 3rd. During the last week (finals week, during which graduate courses meet), students will make short presentations of their white papers and the class will discuss them.
For position papers: Following are guidelines for writing position papers (which also include a template): From University of Hawaii - West Ohau . Here are two other position paper templates: one from the RESOLVE 2002 workshop and and another one from jscuk.com . You should use one of these three templates for your paper (you may choose which one).
For research proposals:
- Introduction and motivation: this should highlight the contributions you propose to make and the motivations for them.
- Proposed work, with subsections: The subsections should specify each subtask and briefly describe the methods you propose to use.
- Evaluation: brief description of how you propose to evaluate your research.
For both types of papers, you may refer to discussion on the Wiki, if appropriate. The bibliography should list the discussant's name, the date, and title of the posting.