One student will be assigned primary responsibility for each
reading assignment. That student will:

1. Prepare and present a five to ten minute
discussion of the article;

2. Lead the subseguent class discussion;

3. Prepare a short (less than 1/2 page double spaced)
abstract of the article, if no abstract is available
with the article; and

4. Prepare a two to three page summary of the article
including its relation to other relevant articles and
the student's critigue of the research methods and
technigues employed in the study. At the end of this
summary and critigue, provide two to five discussion
guestions.

These summaries should reflect the student's knowledge of
research from S600 and other courses. Summaries of research
articles should be approximately 80% critigue and 20% summary.
Summaries of tutorial articles should be approximately 20%
critigue and 80% summary. (Items 3 and 4 are to be neatly
prepared and a copY is to be distributed to each member o£ the
class at a designated location by no later than 10:00 a.m. of
the morning of the class.) Each student will read all
assignments before the class at which they will be discussed.

There will be no guizzes or examinations.

The last several class periods are devoted to student
presentations on MIS research in selected topical areas. The
nature of S601 does not permit us to explore in-depth a topical
area; rather, the course readings present a broad overview of a
wide range of research topics in MIS (the same is true of£  S602).
This writing project allows students to select an MIS research
topic (see categorized list of research topics and papers in niš
syllabus) and to write an in-depth tutorial paper that reviews
the status of this field. The paper (and class presentation)
should concentrate on structuring what is known on this topic and
what future research needs to be done. Replication of
experiments or substantiation by complementary research designs
could be proposed. The model for this paper should be a paper in

ACM Computing Surveys.

Students are to write a 15-20 page paper on their topic, and
a 1-3 page summary (the latter to be ddistributed to class
members prior to the class presentation).