Tutors will provide a small handbook to guide students, it is recommended that the students do further reading from one of the following texts:-

A Manual for Writers of Team Papers, Theses and Dissertations, K Turabian, 1996, University of Chicago Press, ISBN: 0226816273
Writing for Scholarly Publication, Huff, 1999, Sage Publications, ISBN: 0761918051

- Identify and agree the study topic to the satisfaction of the module team.
- Develop a study plan including project milestones, deliverables (and development schedule if appropriate).
- Identify the resources needed.
- Following this the study needs to be carried out and this should be based on the techniques and knowledge gleaned from the underlying modules, together with advice from the module teaching team. Finally the report should be produced describing the achievements, techniques used and analytical aspects of the project.

Each student will undertake an indivdual programme of study related to a computing topic of interest to themselves and write a technical report. Identification of the topic should be carefully carried out in order to assure the value of it to the computing community. Before starting the technical report the student and module team must agree the topic and full scope of work to be completed. The report must include comprehensive referencing to research papers, journals and books etc. to make the work academically sound. The work may or may not have a practical component, this depends on the chosen topic.

Please note that the content written in the technical report must be original in relation to your other module assessments, i.e. you must not copy and reuse content directly from other modules.

Coursework - 100% assessing Learning Outcomes 1 - 4.
An assessed technical report, within word limits of 4,000 - 6,000 words.

The student must write a technical report of a professional standard, which is based on their chosen topic. The technical report will show a clear understanding of that topic relevant to computing.

None.

Material on Blackboard.
General computing facilities.
Staffordshire University has subscriptions to electronic books services such as Safari Techn Books, Ebrary and Netlibrary. There are titles in each of the collections that will support students studying mobile computing. Staffordshire University has subscriptions to IEEExplore, ACM Digital Library, Elsevier Science Direct and Infotrac Computer Database all offering full text electronic access to journals and conference proceedings.