Author --> __________________________________
Rating:
(5: Excellent, 4: Very Good, 3: Good, 2: Fair, 1: Poor)
- Appropriate title, clear and specific, author, Computer Systems Research, Year? ___
- Abstract, with the following elements:
- Problem or purpose of the research ___
- Method of research ___
- Overall quality of the abstract, a concise summary of the project's purpose, method, and results
- Introduction:
- Does the introduction give the reader a good idea of what to expect? ___
- State the subject and purpose of the project as clearly as possible ___
- Define the research being addressed, the approach to the problem/research,
and why this problem is important ___
- Define the scope of the research project ___
- Background
- Provide necessary and relevant background information, provide enough
information to allow the reader to understand the specific research being addressed ___
- Provide a context for this particular research, describe other examples
of projects/research that pertain.
Discuss how these provide a basis for and lead to this project ___
- How clear is the summary of previous work on the topic ___
- Discuss background of relevant theory/algorithms ___
- Your actual program/project:
Research Theory and
Design
criteria
- How clearly are this project's methods, theory, and/or algorithms presented? ___, ___ (two marks)
(for examples see Materials/software
tools, hardware apparatus, Procedure,
and Workplan)
- How thorough and clearly are the processes for this project and research explained ___, ___
- Thoroughness of a research process demonstrated?
Is the level of difficulty and complexity sufficient? ___, ___
- Are tests being conducted? How thorough and clearly are these explained and analyzed? ___, ___
- Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Recommendations
- Thoroughness and extensiveness of the analysis done with the results,
provide a detailed and thorough discussion of results. ___, ___, ___
- Conclusions, recommendations, what was learned this year? ___, ___
- End matter
- References, significant number of references (10), ___, ___
- Appendixes Supplementary material, program code, other notes of progress through the year. ___, ___
- Index (Optional)