Module 1 – SLP
CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE VULNERABILITY AND PROTECTION: AN
INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this session long project (Modules 1–4) is to
provide you with the opportunity to prepare a paper or report on CIP that is of
particular interest to you community, state, or the United States in general.
The following information is essential in ensuring your success with this
course component.
The project is to include at least the following
information:
Rationale for choosing your topic.
Review of the literature.
Implications for you community, state, or the United States
in general.
Session Long Project
For this first module you are to examine the literature
(given to you in background information or search the internet) and consider on
what topic you will focus for your CIP project. Prepare a two (2) page proposal
depicting how you will approach and on what you will be focusing in this
project.
To begin your SLP, in this first module, you are to proceed
accordingly:
Begin browsing through the literature that relate to your
topic of interest. The topic should be important to you or at least to the
United States in general
Finally, develop a preliminary draft introduction to your
review in one or two pages including a reasonably articulated topic to the
literature and a sound rationale or problem statement on why you have selected
this topic in CIP.
While your introduction is not “set in stone” and
you may be fine-tuning this along the way, this introduction is to be written
in a scholarly manner–illustrating careful thought and insight toward the focus
of your project.
SLP Assignment Expectations
To ensure your success and meaningful learning with this
course component, please be sure to read the following information carefully.
Each of the options above is from professional sources from, for example,
scholarly journals, reports, and empirical studies.
Approximate number of scholarly sources from which to draw,
cite, and reference is 10.
Approximate number of pages: 15 including title page and
reference list
Writing format and style: APA formatting is encouraged. The
following are just one of the APA formatting resources:
http://www.library.cornell.edu/newhelp/res_strategy/citing/apa.html
Organizing your Time
The following is a general overview of how you will be
submitting your SLP work. This information is provided for you on each module’s
SLP page in detail.
Module 1: Preliminary Introduction to your Review (SLP 1)
For this first module you are to examine the literature
(given to you in background information or search the internet) and consider on
what topic you will focus for your CIP project. Prepare a two pages proposal
depicting how you will approach and on what you will be focusing in this
project
