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Professional Practices Semester Project

This document provides instructions for a semester research project involving a group paper analyzing professional codes of conduct. Students must collect primary data through questionnaires of at least 20 technology professionals. The research paper should be over 3,000 words and address the similarities and differences between theoretical codes and actual practice, including any past incidents where codes were not followed. Drafts are due on March 31st with the questionnaire, April 15th with questionnaire results, and the final paper is due May 5th. Groups will have 3-4 students and one leader responsible for submissions. The paper will be graded on quality and individual effort.

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Professional Practices Semester Project

This document provides instructions for a semester research project involving a group paper analyzing professional codes of conduct. Students must collect primary data through questionnaires of at least 20 technology professionals. The research paper should be over 3,000 words and address the similarities and differences between theoretical codes and actual practice, including any past incidents where codes were not followed. Drafts are due on March 31st with the questionnaire, April 15th with questionnaire results, and the final paper is due May 5th. Groups will have 3-4 students and one leader responsible for submissions. The paper will be graded on quality and individual effort.

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PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES SEMESTER PROJECT FOR SECTIONS S & T FALL

2020

As a semester project, you have to write a research paper. For which you should collect primary data.
Primary data can be collected questionnaires, you should collect data with questionnaires of at least
20 professionals.

Objectives of the research


Find the difference or similarity of Professional Codes in theory and Codes followed in
practice.
Take any threat related to ethics, morals or behavior and find out the
difference/similarity between theory and practice.
Find out whether these professionals know about the different codes or not.
Find out whether these professionals follow the codes not.
Find out whether they know about the consequences of not following these codes or not.
If possible include questions in your interviews/questionnaires to explore any previous
mishaps in their industry otherwise do some online research and include such examples
where consequences had to be tolerated because these codes were not followed.

NOTE
The profession of the participants of your primary data collection should have a
technological background i.e. Requirements Engineers, Designers, Developers, Testers,
and Quality Assurance Engineers, etc.
The final word count of your research paper should be more than 3,000 words.
It shouldn’t contain any grammatical errors.
It should be your original work and should not have more than 20% plagiarism.
Use the IEEE style of referencing.

General Instructions
This is a grouped assignment but each group member’s input should be highlighted and
marks will be awarded based on two criteria the overall quality of the paper and your
individual effort.
Each group should either have THREE or FOUR students.
Each group should have a group leader, who would be responsible for the submission of
drafts and for consultation.

DRAFTS
Draft One. Deadline: March 31st
CONTENTS
Organization Details
You’re Questionnaire
Submit a hardcopy and mail a softcopy

th
Draft Two. Deadline: April 15
CONTENTS
Results of your questionnaires
Graphs and Charts based on these questionnaires
Submit a hardcopy and mail a softcopy

Draft Three. Deadline: May 5th


CONTENTS
Your final paper
Submit a hardcopy and mail a softcopy

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