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Masters Proposal/Project Style Guide Title Page ALWAYS included in each submission – Title page should be bolded Chapter 1: Introduction (All Chapters begin after a forced page break – All titles bolded and not italicized; i.e. Chapter, section, figure, table titles) BODY OF TEXT REFERENCE STYLE GUIDE Use organization name for Web-based documents without specific authors; (organization name, publication or retrieval year; i.e. PMI, 2004) – Use retrieval date for undated Internet source material Use last name of author for papers or books; e.g. (author last name, year; i.e. Waart, 2006) Use last name of authors for dual-authored items; e.g. (first author last name & author last name, year; i.e. Chopra & Sodhi, 2004) Use et al. for items with three or more authors; e.g. (first author last name, et al., year; Mentzer, et al., 2001) Other than one or two well known definition of something, do not use Wikipedia as a reference because WIKIPEDIA HAS NO CREDIBILITY; e.g. An Electronic Health Record (EHR) refers to an individual patient's health record in digital format (Wikipedia, 2007). Make sure a source cited in the body of the text has a reference in the reference list; e.g. … also why it is happening (Katherine, et al., 2005). Reference not found in the reference list – You need to search throughout the document and correct all instances of this! PROJECT JUSTIFICATION CONTENT PROJECT METHODOLOGY JUSTIFICATION All instrumentation of laboratory and field experiments should be justified based on their use in the literature; e.g. a simulation will be created to simulate … You should provide references that justify using the different methods and the instrumentation you plan to use during the experiment, as well as the data analysis you plan to perform. You should justify each method you will use in completing the project; e.g. You should justify all of the different methods used in completing this project; i.e. 1 1. Use of secondary data. 2. Use of content organization (Content Management use in organizing retrieved secondary data). 3. Use of content analysis on secondary data (Affinity Analysis use within content analysis and data categorization). 4. Use of affinity analysis to organize the content. 5. Use of inductive reasoning to derive the framework from the content extracted from the secondary data. 6. Use of progressive elaboration to iteratively complete 1-3 until an elaborate framework is derived. 7. Use of case study method at the sponsor organization. 8. Primary data collection and methods used to collect primary data at the sponsor organization. a. Survey use. b. Interview use. c. Archive data use. d. Observation use. e. On-site data sampling use at sponsor organization. Secondary Data Method You should provide many references from the literature that validate using this method for data collection, including how to do it (2-3 pages); e.g. http://pqdl.care.org/pv_obj_cache/pv_obj_id_8F453F01C87B8BB24774628B95B42BBCBD 020200 – You should be able to find numerous other references that provide similar richness – An overkill frame of mind is appropriate with regard to the number of references to include – You certainly need that mind set as you retrieve secondary data to use in deriving the framework Data Content Organization Method You should provide many references from the literature that validate using this method for organizing data content, including how to do it (1 ½ - 2 pages); The following URL provides an example of a content organization reference that has much richness with regard to performing content organization; see http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/content-management/products/content.html Content Analysis Method You should provide many references from the literature that validate using this method, including how to do it (2-3 pages); The following URL provides an example of a content organization reference that has much richness with regard to performing content organization; see http://www- 306.ibm.com/software/data/content-management/products/content. html – You should be able to find numerous other references that provide similar richness – You should also provide references from the literature that validate using Affinity Analysis to group data content into categories of data wherein the data maintains an affinity to each other 2 Commas should be inserted after declarative words (Therefore, … Consequently, …) or prepositional phrases that begin sentences; Therefore, comma inserted files must be … . In this process, comma inserted the project … . Refer to author or organization, not title of a report or paper; e.g. The Standish Group CHAOS report for (2003) presented the following data:  5% of software projects are terminated before they produce anything.  66% are considered to have failed.  Of those that do complete completed projects, the average cost blowout is 43% The lost dollar value for USA projects in 2002 is estimated at US$38bn with another US$17bn in cost overruns for a total project waste of $55 billion” (CHAOS Report Standish Group, 2003). You should refer to the company or author of a report, not the name of the report – Periods inserted – All bulleted items should end in periods All bulleted lists should include periods for bulleted items; see previous example Don’t recap or forecast what was/will be stated; e.g. As previously stated, the … . or In the next section, it … . Don’t use hyphenated words in a formal document; e.g. We won’t will not … . Don’t include non-purposeful capitalization of words; e.g. … also WHY why it is happening (Katherine, et al., 2005). Don’t refer to yourself in the first person; e.g. Another person that will benefit is me the researcher. Don’t state that something is in the literature without providing at least one reference as an example; e.g. There are many systems found in Literature to collect & manage patient data for healthcare professionals reference – You cannot say this without referring to at least one source. Don’t waste time stating the obvious; e.g. The methods used to derive the framework are justified from the literature. Don’t waste verbiage stating that a statement comes from an article or book; e.g. From the article written by Knaup (2006) , it is observed … Don’t needlessly place quotation marks around a statement; e.g. When using “eardap,” eardap, … . Don’t state something that comes from reference source without referring to the source of the statement; e.g. Handwritten paper medical records can be associated with 5 poor legibility, which can contribute to medical errors reference. – If this statement is from the previously listed source, you need to refer to that source in some manner – By not citing the source, you imply they are your own statements; which they are not – You need to correct this throughout the document. Don’t overstate the case for something that you produce; e.g. The framework provides complete guidance to … . The framework will attempt to help guide … . Be careful in miss-using the word the; e.g. The Healthcare professionals simply use graphical tools on the interface to get desired patient data. As the framework will attempt to help integrate different kinds of data about the patients in an efficient manner, healthcare professionals should be able to more easily access data that facilitates their diagnosis of the problems and improve … . Always include a comma for prepositional phrases used to begin sentences; e.g. As the framework also includes security issues, (Comma inserted) the … . Avoid compound sentences; e.g. Another benefit to integrating patient data via local patient databases that provide information to interested health informatics developers around the world, that supports the capture of data for the assessment of … . Corrected as: Another benefit to integrating patient data via local patient databases that provides information to interested health informatics developers around the world. (Avoid compound sentences) This support should help , that supports the capture of data for the assessment of Figures and tables that originate with other sources should always identify the source; e.g. Figure 2.2: Analysis of Occurrence of Power Outages Source: Contingency Planning and Research (2003) Don’t insert statements out of sequence for when they should be discussed; e.g. Secondary data is obtained from the following sources: … . Primary data is the data collected through observation, surveys and experiments. (Primary data should be discussed later in this chapter as part of describing how you will complete a case study at the sponsor) Don’t label a table as a figure or vice versa: e.g. the following example Network Services Client Registry Services Provider Registry Services Location Registry Services Provincial Authentication HA Clinical Systems Consent Service Medication Profile Clinical Documentation Community Health IS Clinical Decision Support Tele health Integration EMS Primary Health Care Lab Results Automated Standardized Entry Figure 3.2 Table 3.1: Content Organization This is a Table, not a figure – You need to change it to be Table 3.1 and change the reference to subsequent figures further along in the document 6 Figures and tables should be numbered relative to the Chapter in which they appear and numbered in the order of their appearance in that Chapter; e.g. Figure 1.1: title, 1.2: title, 1.3: title, … 2.1: title, 2.2: title, 2.3: title … ; Table 1.1: title, 1.2: title, 1.3: title, … 2.1: title, 2.2: title, 2.3: title, … . Figure and Table titles should be in title case; e.g. Figure 3.1: Project Methodology Diagram; Table 2.1: Financial Justification for the Project Don’t seek to determine the minimum required to satisfactorily justify or explain something; e.g. This is still weak – You should have many more references that provide justification for using secondary data, especially examples that provide guidance regarding how secondary data can be used – The following URL provides an example of a secondary data reference that has much richness with regard to the use of secondary; see http://pqdl.care.org/pv_obj_cache/pv_obj_id_8F453F01C87B8BB24774628B95B42BBCBD 020200 – You should be able to find many more references that provide similar richness – You need to stop trying to do just enough (trying to figure our what is the bare minimum); an overkill frame of mind is more appropriate – You certainly need that mind set as you retrieve secondary data to use in deriving the framework You should seek the inherent meaning in something being referenced; e.g. The framework is derived inductively by researching the many already established systems in different countries found in the literature and gathering all important data from them relevant to scope of the problem. You need to explain how inductive reasoning looks for patterns and trends in the data to use in inducing a more general product from detailed data items Be complete in describing instrumentation used in completing the project; e.g. Questionnaires are distributed to professionals at the sponsor organization to respond questions regarding the project topic. You should explain that you will use a 5 point Likert scale on questionnaires for respondents to register their responses – You should also state that questionnaires will therefore produce quantitative data, while the other primary data collection methods will produce qualitative data You cannot use data from a single sample case study to assess or change something as comprehensive and extensively grounded in the literature as the framework; e.g. The case study data is use to validate the framework assess the operations of the sponsor organization. Reference List Guidance All references should be numbered and placed in alphabetic sequence; e.g. the following example; 1. American Heart Association. (January 11, 2006). “AHA Statistical Update.” Retrieved September 22, 2007, from http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/reprint/CIRCULATIONAHA.105.171600v1. 2. Almond, … . 7