You must register for one of the suggested topics by the signup sheet.

You must register by Sunday, July 23.

Your pages are due on Wednesday, July 26. Submit them with PG.

Each student will be assigned individually to review three other students' submissions. You should do a careful job on these reviews, because your care in reviewing will be evaluated by other students in a later review round.

Expectations

You should spend about four hours on this assignment. The deliverables will consist of the following:

• A "table of contents" page containing one to three dozen links, appropriately categorized, like on the existing Web pages on topics we have covered this semester. Although you may edit the HTML source of these pages to get your page to conform to the same style, it should be easier to use our Web form; see instructions on use here.

• A study guide, listing the major ethical issues involved in your topic, and containing several links to appropriate articles. See the existing Study Guide pages for guidance. However, your study guide needn't be so long; about one-half to two-thirds of a browser screen is all I expect.

• include a link to the existing Web page at the top of your new page,
• concentrate on finding articles on areas not adequately covered on the existing page, and articles that have appeared recently (e.g., within the past year), and
• clearly indicate which links on your page are new either by using a icon (such as this one), or prominently writing the word "New". Whether or not your page is a new page , you should include a link to the description on the topics page, such as:
  
  <a href="http://courses.ncsu.edu/csc379/lec/001/homework/signup/topics.html#open">
  
  (This is the link that you get when you click on the name of the topic on the signup sheet.)
  Be sure to cite your sources! Each link should list the exact title of the article between the and tag. The source or author of the article should be listed to the right. If it is amagazine or other serial, the name should italicized. However, if it is just someone's name, don't italicize it. Both the name of the publication and the author of the article should be listed, if possible.

To find your articles,

• Use a Web search engine, such as Google.
  
• Don't forget to look through the archives at ACM Tech News .
  

Please read the style guidelines in detail. The following is a summary.

• Each link on the Table of Contents page for each topic should cite its source. The name of the publication should be italicized.If there is an author's name, which may be either an individual or an organization, that should also be listed, but not be italicized. If you write your Table of Contents page with the Web form we have provided, this will be done automatically when you save your work.
  
• Study guides should raise issues and offer links that discuss these issues. They should not be simply a list of links. Here is an example of a good study guide.
  
• In titles of articles, capitalize only the first word and proper nouns.
  
• Follow punctuation rules for English prose (not program source code). For example, an open parenthesis should be preceded by a space(but not followed by a space). A close parenthesis should be followed by punctuation or a space (but not preceded by a space). For more rules, see this page.
  

Each submission will be evaluated in three rounds. The first round of review will be performed by the instructor, possibly assisted by the TA. Students will be given a chance to revise their work in response to these comments. Then it will be reviewed by three other students, who will give feedback to the author. Authors and reviewers will communicate in double-blind fashion via a Web-based evaluation system. That is, the reviewers will not know the identity of the authors whose pages they are reviewing, and the authors will not know who is reviewing them. Authors will have another opportunity to resubmit in response to student comments. The page will then be reviewed for a final time, and graded, by the student reviewers. You should give some thought to the feedback you provide your authors, since you will later be graded on it (by two other students).

Grades will be assigned using the following rubric, with each question scored on a scale of 1 to 10:

• Do the pages stick to the topic, as described on the topics page?
  
• Do they follow the style guidelines?
  
• Do they "look" like existing pages on the Web site?
  
• Do they have links to the old version of pages, and to the topic description on the topics page?
  
• If they are an update, are new articles marked with a "New" icon ()?
  
• Are there an appropriate number of links on the Table of Contents page? If this is an update, are there an appropriate number of new links?
  
• Do the study guide and the Table of Contents page clearly identify the ethical issues?
  
• Do study guide and the Table of Contents treat differing viewpoints fairly?
  
• Is the organization of the Table of Contents and the study guide logical?
  
• Does the study guide identify several issues that are important in learning about the topic?
  

Then each student will be required to review the reviews of two other students by Wednesday, Tuesday, August 8.

There will be a penalty of 2% of your grade for this assignment for each review, or review of a review, that you do not do.

Here is a summary of the due dates associated with this assignment: