Briefing Detailed Project Proposal

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Module Masters in Computer Science Project 10/11 Sem C

Prepared by Lynette Pye 1 of 6 May 2011

UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIREFACULTY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND CREATIVE ARTS

ASSIGNMENT BRIEFING FRONT SHEET (2010/11 SEMESTER C)

Assignment

TitleDetailed Project Proposal

Date

submitted

Module Title MSc Project (Sem C)

Module

Codes

7COM0087

7COM0088

7COM0089

7COM0090

7COM0091

7COM0092

7COM00937COM0095

7COM0114

7COM0161

7COM0201

Tutor Lynette Pye

GROUP or

INDIVIDUAL

Assignment

Individual

(Comments on this assignment can be made on the back of the assignment briefing sheet).

By completing the boxes below, I certify that the submitted work is entirely mine and that any

material derived or quoted from the published or unpublished work of other persons has been

duly acknowledged. [ref. UPR AS12, section 7 and UPR AS14 (Appendix III)].

Further guidance on avoiding academic assessment offences such as plagiarism and collusion is given at theURL: http://homepages.stca.herts.ac.uk/~scs/PlagiarismAndCollusion.pdf

Student Forename(in CAPS please)

Student Surname(in CAPS please)

Student IDNumber

Year Code(eg EIMAST)

Actual Time Spenton the Assignment

Your Signature


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ASSIGNMENT BRIEFING SHEETASSIGNMENT AIMS:

This task is intended to help you prepare for an individual investigative project by getting you to

investigate the academic background to your project idea;

identify a set of research questions that will provide an appropriate basis for an investigative

project, and decide how they should be addressed;

decide upon a set of objectives that will form the agenda for your masters project and against

which your achievements could be evaluated;

determine

- what further reading you will need to do

- what practical skills you will need to pick up

- what apparatus you will need to construct

- what data you will need to collect

- what sort of data analysis will be required

in order to complete the project;

clarify what tasks you will need to perform, estimate how long they will take, and construct an

outline action plan, indicating the timing and ordering of tasks.

MODULE LEARNING OUTCOMES ASSESSED:

This assignment is not formally assessed. It will however be used as an indication of participation on

the module, and will trigger the appointment of a project tutor. Students who have not submitted

anything at all may be removed from the module.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:Please submit your proposal both via StudyNet and on paper via the coursework submission centre in

E350 Foyer. The master copy will be the StudyNet version, and the timing of that particular

submission will be noted.

FEEDBACK FROM THIS ASSIGNMENT:

Your proposal will be handed to an assigned tutor. Feedback will be via discussions with that project

tutor.

MARKS AWARDED FOR:

There are no marks for this assessment.


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What you have to hand in

You are required to hand in a formal, written, detailed project proposal. In it you are expected to

describe a body of work that could realistically complete in about 600 hours (15 weeks of full time

effort), that will meet the requirements of the project module for which you are registered.

Formal Requirements

a) Your Detailed Project Proposal should be between 1500 and 2500 words in length, and should

contain the 5 sections set out below. In each case I have indicated an approximate word length for

guidance purposes. Dont worry if some sections of your proposal are either shorter or longer

than my suggested word lengths, but try to keep the whole thing down to less than 2500 words.

1. The Academic Background to the Proposal (around 600 words)

2. The Project Goals (about 200 words)

The research questions you wish to address and theproject objectives you expect to meet

3. The Practical Investigation (about 600 words).

A description of the practical work you will do, and how that work would help you to

address your research questions and meet your project objectives4. A Task Analysis and Outline Plan (about 300 words)

5. A statement of the Resource Requirements for your proposed project (about 300 words)

b) The proposal should be word processed and in the following format:

Printed on A4 paper (single-sided), and stapled in the top left corner with theAssignmentSubmission Sheetas its front cover for the paper submission.

Please submit both a pdf and a doc or docx file on StudyNet. (No front sheet is requiredfor the StudyNet submission)

Single spaced text.

12 point Times or Times New Roman font (except for mathematical formulae, where you

may use whichever font is most appropriate, and program source code, where you shoulduse a non-proportional font such as Courier).

Margins: 30mm left; 20mm right; 20mm top and bottom.

Pages numbered in one continuous sequence (excluding the Assignment Submission

Sheet).

What your individual project tutor may comment on:

a) The quality of your work in the individual sections of the proposal, in terms of

the quantity and quality of the information you have presented

the level of detail you have provided

the relevance and usefulness of the material you have included

the academic credibility of the project you are proposing and the approach you have chosen

how well your proposal meets the requirements of your particular award

b) The overall coherence of the proposal and the quality of your written work

How well your proposal hangs together as a whole, including the suitability of the proposal as a

masters project, the consistency of presentation and the clarity of your discussion.

The technical quality of the writing: report structure, grammar, spelling, referencing, et cetera.

The style of writing: appropriateness, readability, consistency.


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Further Information About Content

1. Academic Background and Overview of the Proposal(USEFUL PREPARATION: Action points in 1.7 and 3.7 of the textbook)

Make sure you start off by stating which research question you are working on!Then make sure you explain the context within which the project work is to be carried out

a brief description of the topic area(s) within which the work will lie;

your interpretation of the research question (s) you have chosen;

the research questions you think you will address, and how you will go about addressing

them (what research strategies/methods you think are most appropriate).

the relationship between the proposed project and the current state of the art:

- how well established is the area you will be studying?

- has the work you wish to do been done before, is it an extension of previous work, or is

it completely new?

- how well established are the techniques you will use and the theories you would need toapply?

- in what way are the results of the project likely to be of interest to those outside the

University?

the relationship between your proposed project, your academic studies, and any other work

you have already done in the same subject area.

2. Project Goals

(USEFUL PREPARATION: Action points in 2.7 and 4.8 of the textbook)

A description of what you would like to achieve by doing a project based on this proposal

In this section you should set out The objectives for the project.

Of course the primary objective of an investigative project is to answer the research

questions that were asked at the outset. In addition, I want you to identify here the specific

things you will be trying to achieve in the course of the project that will help you to answer

your research questions. Please make sure it is clear to the person reading your proposal in

what way achieving your project objectives will help you to answer your research questions.

Try to identify which of these are core to the project, and which represent advanced

achievements.

Core achievements are those things that you expectto have got done: if you do not achieve

most of them in full, and all of them in part, the project will not have been a success.

Advanced achievements are those things that you would like to get done, but your ability to

achieve them depends upon the outcome of other work. You may find you have a shopping

list of advanced achievements, from which you could choose once you knew the precise

direction in which your work was going, or you may find that you have some questions /

objectives that it would not be possible to address before the core work was completed.

Most likely it will be a mixture of the two.

3. Practical Investigation

(USEFUL PREPARATION: Action points in 2.7 of the textbook)

Identify

what you are setting out to measure and why what apparatus will you need to construct (hardware, software, questionnaires, et cetera)


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Documents

Briefing Detailed Project Proposal