In this two-week project, you will research the cybersecurity industry and identify what you perceive to be the top three trends. You will then develop a research question about one specific issue (it can be one of the trends) and research this issue more deeply to produce a short analytical paper on the impact of this issue on your field.
In the previous two steps, you performed research, first to identify industry trends, and then for information about an issue in one of those trends that you consider to be important to your industry. Now it is time to draft your paper.
This would be a good time to review information on organization in writing and paragraphs. You might also want to check out the Effective Writing Center’s Online Guide to Writing, a valuable reference for improving your writing.
Your research paper should accomplish two objectives:
Identify the three top trends in your industry and your rationale, based on the resources you have found, for your choices.
Discuss the issue within one of the trends that you deem important, based on the current state of the industry, and will be supported by your analysis of facts and a well-reasoned conclusion of what it means to the industry.
Your paper will be five to seven pages, not including your cover page and References page(s), double-spaced and set up in APA standard formatting. It does not require an abstract.
Start with an outline and flesh out the main themes with supporting statements. This will become your roadmap to an organized paper. Draft, sleep on it, and edit. Repeat.
Refer to References and Citations to ensure that you are using in-text citations to give credit for others’ ideas and to build your credibility as a researcher, neither ignoring sources nor quoting excessively. Your citations, both in-text and on the References page, should follow the APA citing and referencing resources in the UMGC Library Citing and Writing Portal. Use the left navigation menu to find additional information and examples.
Your headings should follow this general pattern:
Paper Title (first level position, centered, bold)
Findings (first level heading, centered, bold)
Top Trends of the _____ Industry (second level heading, bold, flush left)
An Important Emerging Issue in a Trend and what it means in context to the industry (second level heading, bold, flush left)
Conclusions (first level heading, centered, bold)
References (new page, first level position, bold)
Milestone
Many students are asked to resubmit their papers based on incomplete or inaccurate citation formatting. This milestone will help you start off with proper APA citations. By the end of Week 2, submit a shell of your paper with the following elements:
a cover sheet in a good APA format
a template for your paper that includes the headings
an opening paragraph that introduces the industry, top trends, chosen issue, and question you propose to answer
a draft References page
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