BUS 237 – Assignment 1: MIS Article Critique

Due Date/Time: Check Canvas Assignments for the due date/time for your subdivision! Objective and Background:
Many of the constructs you will be larning throughout this class are best understood every bit good as more interesting if you are cognizant of current and emerging MIS-related intelligence in academic diaries. newspapers. and magazines. This assignment will let you to portion an article of your pick from a reputable beginning and review it. Cardinal constructs include: New and current engineering ; direction information systems ; invention ; composing concern reviews ; analysing media intelligence ; and concern communicating accomplishments.

Directions:
Find a recent article ( within 6 hebdomads of this assignment’s deadline ) from either: ?

The Economist
Harvard Business Review
Bloomberg Business Week
Wired
The Globe and Mail
The Financial Times
New York Times
itbusiness. ca

Your pick of article may be by and large based on a technological invention or application of engineering ( successful or otherwise ) . or more specifically related to one of the subjects we have discussed or will discourse in category ( see class lineation ) . You must guarantee that you cite your article right utilizing APA citing manner. every bit good as to cite any other beginnings you use. You should supply an electronic transcript of your chosen article ( PDF format required ) with your entry.

You are required to fix a maximal two-page drumhead study of this article in Microsoft Word. including a review and/or assessment of the article’s content ; and clearly indicate out how it relates to at least one of the constructs from BUS 237 talks or text edition chapters.

A note about your study: You should give no more than one page to sum up the article with the remainder reserved for reviewing the article. You will be reviewing the content of the article. Make non review the authorship manner or grammar used in the article. Concentrate your review on the sentiments and facts presented in the article. You should show your sentiments supported by external beginnings such as academic publications or intelligence narratives with your review.

Examples of such critique include agreeing/disagreeing with the major takeouts of the article or widening the chief points of the article with external research or personal observations. It is acceptable to compose the review utilizing the first-person position. Review carefully and redact your write-up for grammatical and spelling errors missed by MS Word’s auto-correct characteristic.

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BUS 237 – Assignment 1: MIS Article Critique

Submission Instruction manuals:
This assignment is to be submitted online. utilizing the Canvas Assignments tool. Attach your completed assignment and needed supporting file ( s ) .

You will subject a 3 page papers including a screen page + 2 page study in MS Word. The papers should be written in a business/professional format. good organized and easy to read. Tax write-offs will use for hapless data format. spelling/grammatical errors. and hapless organisation of thoughts. Specifically. you are expected to utilize MS Word styles. citation/reference director. and
screen page characteristics. Mention to Lab Unit 2 notes for item.

Format Requirements:
Please utilize the undermentioned founts merely: Arial. Times New Roman. Tahoma or Calibri. Do NOT utilize font size smaller than 11 platinums. All page borders should be at least 2. 5 centimeter ( i. e. . 1 inch or 72 platinums ) . Double-space paragraph data format is required. Merely MS Word file format is accepted for the study – all other formats ( e. g. . PDF or MS Works ) will NOT be accepted.

This is really of import to avoid show incompatibilities taking to unneeded scaling punishments. The screen page ( this page does non number toward your study page bound ) should clearly expose the undermentioned information: your name. pupil figure. TA’s name. and course/tutorial subdivision figure.

Submit via Canvas Assignments tool the undermentioned two files:
1 ) MS Word Report dwelling of your screen page + 2 pages of study content ( 3 pages in entire ) 2 ) PDF Copy of Article you selected for this assignment ( your assignment can non be graded without article! )

Taging Standards:
Assignments are core constituents of BUS 237.

See the assignment rating key on the last page for the rating standards used to rate this assignment.

Plagiarism: Students are expected to work independently on this assignment ; hence. a maximal class of nothing ( 0 ) will be given to pupils whose entries suggest that they collaborated with others on their assignments. This applies to the original writer of the work. every bit good as to those whose entries resemble it!

Late entries will be penalized at the rate of -10 for 1 twenty-four hours. -50 for 2 yearss. -90 for 3 yearss!

Missing assignments will ensue in an N ( non finish ) class for this class! ! ! This automatically becomes a Failed ( F ) at the terminal of the semester. if the demands ( i. e. . subjecting the assignment ) are non satisfied.

Reach your TA instantly if you are holding any jobs with the Canvas entry procedure!

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BUS 237 – Assignment 1: Scaling Key

Exceeds Expectations
( 20 )
Article straight related to thoughts in class. and from reputable beginning

Meets Expectations
( 15 )
Article indirectly related to thoughts in class. and from reputable beginning

Approachs Expectations ( 10 )

Article indirectly related to thoughts in class. and non from reputable beginning

Fails Expectations
( 5 )
Article does non associate to thoughts in class. and/or is non from reputable beginning

Structure

Organization appropriate. appropriate length. good presentation

Organization ok. sensible length. sensible presentation

Several jobs with organisation. length. or presentation

Inappropriate organisation. length or presentation

Content & A ; Tone

Presents review and assessment of cardinal thoughts ; Appropriate tone established and maintained throughout study in a concern professional manner

Some jobs with presentation of review and assessment of cardinal thoughts ;
Appropriate tone established but non maintained systematically

Poor attempt to review and measure cardinal thoughts ;
Appropriate tone neither established nor maintained systematically

No attempt to review and measure cardinal thoughts ; Inappropriate tone used