New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
Computer and Information Science Department (CIS)
CIS677: Information System Principles, Spring 2000
Professors: Michael Bieber and Catherine Campbell

Assignment: Individual Article Reviews

Due Dates:

• a copy of the proposed article or its abstract, as well as its full bibliographic citation, for approval: by 2/8 (distance) and 2/15 (on-campus)
• full reviews: 3/7 (on-campus) and 3/14 (distance)

Goal:

To give you experience in reading critically, and in writing a critical article review.

*** The individual article review is in addition to the mentoring article review described in the mentoring handout.

Assignment:

(1) Pick an article.

Pick an interesting professional article from the IS professional journals or refereed conferences. ("Refereed" means that the article has been formally reviewed and recommended by a group of peer researchers.)

These include MIS Quarterly, Journal of MIS, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, Information Systems Research, ACM Computing Surveys, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, etc.

See the following journal pages from

• http://catt.bus.okstate.edu/isworld/journal2.htm
• http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/S/Carol.S.Saunders-1/newjournal.htm

Also valid are refereed conference proceedings such as the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) and the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS).

The following are *not* acceptable sources:

• the trade press such as Computerworld, Information Week, Business Week, etc.
• technical reports
• non-refereed articles found on the World Wide Web.
• non-refereed or lightly-refereed conference articles.

Also, please note:

• Your article must be at least 8 pages of tight text, so short articles are not acceptable.
• You may not use articles read in your other classes.
• Only one person may review an article. Articles already chosen will be posted in the WebBoard Administrative conference.

(2) Have Professor Bieber or Campell approve your article.

Please give your professor:

• a copy of the proposed article or its abstract in class, or email this
• put your name on the article and write "proposed article for the individual article review"
• include the article's full bibliographic reference (authors, title, journal name, issue, year, page numbers), etc. Write any missing information on the copy you give us, if all of this information is not there already.

(3) Do the Review

Once we have formally approved your article and listed it in the WebBoard Administrative conference, review the article using the article review guidelines posted on the class Web site.

As the article review guidelines will note, you should conduct a citation analysis for your article. Those off-campus may want to do this citation analysis together with that for your mentoring article.

(4) Submit the Review

Please turn in a printed copy of your review and a copy of the article itself, (if you didn't originally). Distance section participants also must mail a printed copy of their article reviews.

(5) Post the Review

Post your article review in the "Individual Article Review" WebBoard as an HTML document.

This page: http://www.cis.njit.edu/~bieber/CIS677S00/review.html