Private Sector Business Corporations Writing Ques
Assignment Instructions
Assignment: Write a Research Question and Conduct Preliminary Research (1 to 1 1/2 pages)
After you have read the week’s Lesson Materials, please develop a research question that you will build on during this class. Your paper should several paragraphs to provide some background about the topic you have chosen and the gap you see in the literature that leads you to ask this question. This is not a statement of your personal interest in the topic. Also, explain your search method to access the most relevant information about your topic.
1. Infrastructure Protection is the topic that you can develop a question about
If you are wondering what a search method is, it is a process or technique. It is “how” you go about researching a topic. Typically you will have criteria (a way of measuring what you find to determine if it is relevant) and you will have search terms (which are specific references to dates, places, events, people, concepts, authors, etc., that can be used in a search engine). A search method might include examining a wide variety of databases; it might including using the bibliographies in books and articles to find more sources. It might include restricting yourself to peer reviewed journal articles, etc. No matter what paper or what topic, you will always be using some method for searching for the information you need.
Then go to the APUS online library and conduct a search for articles in peer-reviewed, academic journals or books about your topic. You can access the Library from the Classroom by selecting Library on the left vertical toolbar. Navigate the online databases and conduct a search based on keywords relating to your topic.
Choose two articles pertinent to your topic and provide a citation for these articles using APA Style citation format. Refer to the APA Quick guide in this week’s Lessons. The highest quality sources are peer reviewed articles, government publications, and scholarly texts.
1. Critical Information Infrastructure Protection and the Law: An Overview of Key Issue :https://www.nap.edu/read/10685/chapter/1
Citation: Personick, S. D., Patterson, C. A., & National Research Council (U.S.). (2003). Critical Information Infrastructure Protection and the Law : An Overview of Key Issues. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy2.apus.edu/logi…
2. Homeland security and private sector business corporations’ role in critical infrastructure protection: https://www-taylorfrancis-com.ezproxy2.apus.edu/books/9780429249549
Citation: Lee, E. (2009). Homeland security and private sector
business corporations’ role in critical infrastructure protection .
Boca Raton: CRC Press.
On every paper that you write for this school, you will include the title, your name, course name and number, instructor name, university name, and date. On your final paper, you will provide a cover sheet with this pertinent information. Missing elements will limit your grade.
Create in a Word document and upload to Assignments by Sunday night at 11:55pm EST.
The submission will be based on the following rubric: (YOU MAY USE THESE CATEGORIES AS HEADINGS FOR YOUR PAPER TO ENSURE YOU MEET EACH REQUIREMENT)
1) Research Question (25 pts)
2) Background Description (25 pts)
3) Search Criteria (25 pts)
4) Listing of Two Relevant Sources (25 pts)