GRAD REPORT REQUIREMENTS

Introduction

Students taking the course for graduate credit will be required to submit a survey of the state of the art in a given subtopic or an in-depth report on a particular Computer Graphics technique not presented in lecture.  The intention of this deliverable is to prepare the student for a possible project / thesis in the area of Graphics. Grad students should meet with the instructor in the first three weeks of the course to discuss possible topics that match the students interests and future study plans in the area of Computer Graphics. It is possible, and quite likely, that the topic for the report will be related to the final project.

If you find that you are having difficulty locating materials, please request help from Roman Koshykar (475-2238, 05-2420, rgkwml@rit.edu). Roman is the GCCIS reference librarian, and will be able to help you locate resources.

Deliverables (Submit to myCourses)

1. Topic Submission

Submit a brief summary of your intended topic. The summary should include a title, a short abstract, and a bibliography. The bibliography should include a list (not necessarily complete) of the papers you plan to review. Any of the standard bibliography formats are acceptable.

Due date for topic submission: Wednesday, December 17, 2008

2. Final Report Submission

Due date for final submission: Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Guidelines

The following guidelines are presented for two reasons: to help guide you in determining how to write your papers, and to help simplify the grading process. In particular, the format restrictions mentioned below are intended to make it easier for me to read your papers (for grading purposes) while not making the papers harder for you to write; as such, I will expect you to abide by them. In most cases, the restrictions are similar to the standards of many professional publications in this field.

1. Quantity. The report should be long enough to say what needs to be said and short enough to be comprehensible while giving reasonable coverage of the topic. It is hard to say anything of real substance in less than 10-15 pages; rarely, though, should a report for this assignment require more than 20 pages.
    
2. Quality. At a minimum, each paper should have a cover page, the text itself, and a bibliography. You need not provide a table of contents, although one would certainly be appropriate if you choose to organize the paper into sections and subsections.
   
   The question of coverage of broad topic areas typically arises. In general, a paper which covers fewer major ideas but goes into each idea in more detail is better than a paper which attempts to touch on every idea in an area but doesn't get into any idea in depth.
    
3. Format. The cover page should state the title of the paper, your name, the course name, the quarter, instructor's name, and the due date. Pages must be double-spaced, and must have margins of one inch on all sides. Pages (other than the cover page) should be numbered.
    
4. Bibliography. The bibliography often gives people problems. Minimally, a bibliography entry for a book should include the author(s), the title, the publisher, and the year of publication. When including a reference to a journal or magazine article, the volume and/or issue number should also be included.
   
   Our library has a number of excellent online references which cover this. I recommend the Modern Language Association (MLA) citation format; the library has a nice MLA Citation Format (PDF) summary document, which covers both bibliography entries and in-text citations.

Notes

All submission will be checked for plagiarism. You will get a zero if you plagiarize.