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Following is a suggested outline for writing the course
paper for Foundations in Graphic Communications (option 1: Write a
research paper on a topic from the "recent key developments” list,
distributed at first class session, or on another topic approved by the
instructor)
• What is my topic?
• what printing technology am I writing about?
• What part of the production process
does it belong to?
• creative/design?
• prepress?
• press?
• postpress?
• Is it a new technology?
• for about how long have we been using it?
• where did it come from?
• How does it work?
• what is it intended to do or to produce?
• what does it need in order to function?
• what is its workflow: how does the process begin,
continue, and end?
• Why is it an important development
in graphic communications?
• what process (or processes) does it replace?
• why is it an improvement over what it replaces?
• how does it make printing:
-- better in quality?
-- more cost efficient?
-- able to produce work that was
difficult or impossible to produce
before this technology was available?
• What are some examples of how it is
being used?
• general examples?
• specific examples?
general advice:
• REMEMBER: DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION
IS SESSION 11, 4-23-09
• PAPERS MAY BE E-MAILED TO
PThenry@citytech.cuny.edu
• WRITE CLEARLY
• SPELL-CHECK AND PROOFREAD YOUR
PAPER BEFORE SUBMITTING
• REMEMBER: MINIMUM REQUIRED LENGTH
IS 1,500 WORDS (COUNT WORDS, NOT PAGES)
• CITE YOUR SOURCES
• IF DESIRED, USE ILLUSTRATIONS,
CLIPS, ETC. (NOT MANDATORY)
• DON’T COPY LONG PASSAGES VERBATIM
FROM GETTING
IT PRINTED
• DON’T DO “WEB DUMPS”
• DON’T CUT-AND-PASTE FROM WIKIPEDIA
• THIS GUIDELINES DOCUMENT HAS BEEN
POSTED TO BLACKBOARD
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