CS 5513 Fall 2011, Proposal

Due at the beginning of class, October 19, 2011.

Write a proposal for your class project. You may work in groups of up to four people, or you may work individually. Each group will submit one proposal document. Choose a topic from a prepared list of projects, or, if you like, identify a topic of your choosing and discuss it with the professor. If your topic isn't on the prepared list, you must discuss it with the professor before the proposal is due.

The proposal will be an informal document (as opposed to a research paper) describing the project. The proposal should answer the following questions:

Don't write the proposal with headings like What is the subject you are researching?. Choose your own organization for the material. You may want to model your proposal after a research paper you have read. Even though this assignment is described as an informal document, you must still pay attention to spelling and grammar. Don't hand-write your proposal; use a word processor or editor.

Important: All of the words in your proposal must be yours, with the exception of very short passages from relevant literature. Such passages must be given proper credit with a citation. You mustn't copy or even paraphrase from other sources and present the text as your own.

Hint: If you decide to work in a group, choose the members wisely. You may end up in a group of slackers where you have to do all the work. If you are a slacker yourself, you may end up in a group composed of other slackers and no one will get any work done.