1. Sylnovie Merchant, Ph.D MIS 210 Fall 2004 Research Guidelines

2. Sylnovie Merchant, Ph.D MIS 210 Fall 2004 MIS 210 Research Proposal/Paper Guidelines Introduction –This section should discuss the topic you are interested in researching. For your proposal try to keep this section to one page. For your final paper, it may be longer. DO NOT start this section with “I want to do research on...” Instead provide a description of your area of interest. At the end of this section discuss why you feel this topic should be researched. What is the problem you are addressing? Why should your audience (colleagues, academics, people in the field) care about this topic?

3. Sylnovie Merchant, Ph.D MIS 210 Fall 2004 MIS 210 Research Proposal/Paper Guidelines Body –This section should discuss the methodology you used, the literature you reviewed and your findings. This should not be simply a list of articles, but a clear and thorough discussion based on your review of the relevant literature. This section should support your statements in the introduction (i.e., this is important because...).

4. Sylnovie Merchant, Ph.D MIS 210 Fall 2004 Research Paper Guidelines Conclusion –What do you conclude from your research? Why? Recommendations –What are your recommendation- for industry? for future research? any others? Bibliography –Should always start on a separate page. Alphabetical, by author.

5. Sylnovie Merchant, Ph.D MIS 210 Fall 2004 Modified APA Format The work of Rogers (1994) and researchers in other disciplines have been used to help IT researchers build a theory of technological innovation.

6. Sylnovie Merchant, Ph.D MIS 210 Fall 2004 Modified APA Format Since its inception, the diffusion of email has grown at a phenomenal rate. In 1996, the number of users was estimated to be fifty million, with an additional one million being added each month (Romm et. al., 1996). According to one source, there is an estimated growth to 135 million users by 2001 (Johnson and Smith, 1998). Another source states that it is expected to grow to 300 million users by 2003 (Ruiz, 2000).

7. Sylnovie Merchant, Ph.D MIS 210 Fall 2004 Modified APA Format Innovation has been defined in a variety of ways by numerous authors. To Thompson (1965, p.2), it is “the generation, acceptance, and implementation of new ideas, processes, products or services”.

8. Sylnovie Merchant, Ph.D MIS 210 Fall 2004 Bibliography Single Author: –Ajzen, Icek, 1991, “The Theory of Planned Behavior,” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, (50), pp. 179-211. Multiple Authors: –Brass, Daniel J, Kenneth D. Butterfield, and Bruce C. Skaggs,1998, “Relationships and Unethical Behavior: A Social Network Perspective,” Academy of Management Review, January, (23:1), pp. 14-31.

9. Sylnovie Merchant, Ph.D MIS 210 Fall 2004 Bibliography Book: Babbie, Earl, 1995, The Practice of Social Research, 7th ed., Wadsworth Publishing Company, Belmont, CA. Web Citations:Thornburg, David D., 2000, “Technology in K-12 Education: Envisioning A New Future,” US Dept. of Education/Technology White Paper Revising the National Education Technology Plan. [On-Line] http://www.air.org/forum/wpapers.htm. [2000, November 22].