Signals Intelligence

PAPER INSTRUCTIONS:
Your final paper is where you will weave the first two elements (the White Paper and Literature Review) together, and incorporate your analysis, to create a coherent paper that is 13-15 pages in length. While it is inappropriate (not to mention a violation of university policy) to cut-and-paste from past assignments in old courses into new ones, this research project is evolutionary and builds itself up from a research proposal to a completed product. For this reason, in this class it is permissible to paste the information (as appropriate and as it makes sense) from the first two assignments assigned in this course into your final assignment.
Format. Your final paper should include a Title Page, body, and Reference Page. Your paper should have one-inch borders on all four sides, use Times New Roman-12 point font, be double spaced, and not have an extra space in-between paragraphs. (You may need to turn this off in MS word by going to “paragraph” and clicking “Don’t add space between paragraphs of the same style). Since this is an INTL course you need to use the Turabian parenthetical citation style with a references page.
Your final paper should include the following sections:
Introduction. This section should be written last and should pull from some of the elements of your white paper. You will need to clearly provide an overview of the topic you are writing about, a concise synopsis of the issues, state your issue, and discuss why the situation is important to investigate. Writing the introduction last is helpful in ensuring that you’ve incorporated any changes that may have taken place over the course of your research. This section should be about one page in length.
Literature Review. Your literature review section is a synthesis of the sources that you identified in your second assignment in addition to other sources that you have identified to support your research. This section should be 5-6 pages in length.
Analysis and Findings. This section and the conclusion discussed below are essentially the two newest components of your final paper. Your analysis and findings section should provide a narrative of your analysis and the analytical arguments that you will make as a result of your findings. In this section you will discuss the different information processing errors that occurred within your chosen situation and explain how they lead to or are leading to errors in analysis and/or decision- 2 making. Within this section you should provide the evidence that proves or disproves your hypothesis. This section should be 5-6 pages in length.
Conclusion. This section will contain the concluding analytical arguments based on what the analysis has revealed. Here you will discuss some of the techniques and strategies that can be used to help mitigate the information processing errors and/or decision-making errors that occurred during the situation under investigation. Like any conclusion, it should provide a synopsis of the project, the strategy, the results, and what the analysis adds to our body of knowledge. Within your conclusion you should also offer suggestions for avenues of future research for other scholars as all knowledge is evolutionary. This section should be 1-2 pages in length.
References. This section will contain all of the references that you have cited within your paper. They should be listed in Turabian References format and arranged alphabetically. Entitle this section as “References”, each source notation should be single spaced with one space between each source. At this level your references should fall within the 10-15 sources range and be made up primarily of peer-reviewed content.