THE UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD

School of Computing and Engineering

ASSIGNMENT SPECIFICATION
Module details
Module Code CMI3416/CMI7416
Module Title Effective Research and Professional Practice
Course Title/s MSc Computing, MSc Information Systems Management, MSc
Internet of Things, MSc Artificial Intelligence, MSc Data Analytics,
MSc Cyber Security and Digital Forensics, MSc Industrial
Mathematics, MEng Software Engineering, MSci/MEng Comp.
Science, MComp/MEng Computing

Assessment weighting, type and contact details

Title Academic Literature Review
Weighting 50%
Mode of working for Individual
assessment task Note: there should be no collusion or collaboration whilst working
on and subsequently submitting this assignment.
Module Leader Joan Lu (responsible for Contact details: [email protected]
term 2) Office: SJ2/16A
Module Tutor/s George Bargiannis Contact details: [email protected]
(responsible for term 1) Office: SJ5/11

Submission and feedback details

Hand-out date Monday 27 September 2021 (students taking module in term 1)
Monday 17 February 2022 (students taking module in term 2)
How to submit your Submit through the Turnitin submission point on Brightspace.
work.
Submission date/s and Friday 15 October 2021 23:59 (students taking module in term 1)
times Friday 4 February 2022 23:59 (students taking module in term 2)
Expected amount of 15 hours
independent time you
should allocate to
complete this
assessment
Submission type and A written report (approx. 1500 words) submitted as a single PDF
format document.
Date by which your Friday 5 November 2021 (students taking module in term 1)
grade and feedback will Friday 25 February 2022 (students taking module in term 2)
be returned Feedback will be provided through Brightspace.

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Additional guidance information
Your It is your responsibility to read and understand the University regulations
responsibility regarding conduct in assessment.

Please pay special attention to the assessment regulations (section 4) on

Academic Misconduct.

In brief: ensure that you;

1. DO NOT use the work of another student - this includes students from
previous years and other institutions, as well as current students on the
module.
2. DO NOT make your work available or leave insecure, for other students to
view or use.
3. Any examples provided by the module tutor should be appropriately
referenced, as should examples from external sources.

Further guidance can be found in the SCEN Academic Skills Resource and UoH
Academic Integrity Resource module in Brightspace.

If you experience difficulties with this assessment or with time management,

please speak to the module tutor/s, your Personal Academic Tutor, or the
School’s Guidance Team. ([email protected]).
Requesting a You are reminded to ‘back-up’ your work as late submission requests will not
Late be given for lost work, which includes work lost due to hardware and software
Submission failure/s.

Late submission requests will only be approved if you can demonstrate

genuine, unexpected circumstances along with independent supporting
evidence (e.g. medical certificate) that may prevent you submitting an
assessment on time.

Submit your request for Late Submission via MyHud/MyStudies within 2

working days of the due date.

Late submission requests, up to a maximum of 10 working days, but typically 1-

5 working days, will be considered provided that there is appropriate evidence
which clearly indicates reasons for the request.

You will have 5 working days after submitting a request to provide the
evidence. Failure to submit evidence will result in the request being rejected
and your work being marked as a late submission (see below).

If you are unable to submit work within the maximum late submission period of
10 days, contact the School’s Guidance Team ([email protected]), as you
may need to submit a claim for Extenuating Circumstances (ECs).

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Additional guidance information
Extenuating An EC claim is appropriate in exceptional circumstances, when an extension is
Circumstances not sufficient due to the nature of the request, or it concerns an examination or
(ECs) In-Class Test (ICT).

You can access the EC claim form on the Registry website; where you can also
find out more about the process.

You will need to submit independent, verifiable evidence for your claim to be
considered.

Once your EC claim has been reviewed you will get an EC outcome email from
Registry. If you are unsure what it means or what you need to do next, please
speak to the Student Support Office – Room SJ1/01

An approved EC will extend the submission date to the next assessment period
(e.g July resit period).

Late Late submission, up to 5 working days, of the assessment submission deadline,

Submission will result in your grade being capped to a maximum of a pass mark.
(No ECs
approved) Submission after this period, without an approved extension, will result in a 0%
grade for this assessment component.
Tutor Referral YES
available Students eligible for tutor reassessment will be emailed individually with details
about the submission and feedback process.
Resources • Please note: you can access free Office365 software and you have 1 Tb
of free storage space available on Microsoft’s OneDrive – Guidance on
downloading Office 365.

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 Assignment 1
Academic Literature Review
1. Assignment Aims

• To gain experience in literature searching and analysis and scientific writing.

• To become skilled in recognising and investigating a wide range of issues in computing
research and practice.

2. Learning Outcomes

• Identify and delineate the professional, legal and ethical issues raised by computing
practice in organisations and in research, as well as the state of the art in a particular
computing domain.
• Reflect critically on your own personal and professional development.

3. Assessment Brief

For this assignment, you need to conduct and write an academic literature review on
a topic of your choice, relevant to your degree. The review should demonstrate an
understanding of the field of research related to the chosen topic and a firm grasp of
competing hypotheses in the area. In preparing your submission, you need to take
into account the following notes regarding topic choice, structure and content
requirements.
Choosing your Topic
The topic of your literature review has to be related to one of the areas of research
and/or practice that are associated with your degree. In choosing your topic, you may
indicatively get inspiration from any undergraduate or postgraduate modules and
projects you have undertaken, or any experience gained from placement or
employment. Feedback on your topic choice will be provided from your tutors. You
are strongly advised to make your choice within two days of the handout date.
Structure
You are free to structure your review in any way that you feel is more suitable to your
topic. Indicatively, you can structure it as a standard essay, containing:
- An introductory section where you can define your topic, state the scope of
the review and explain the organisation of the rest of the document.
- The main body where the review of relevant literature is provided.
- A concluding section where you briefly summarise the most important aspects
of the literature review and point out potential gaps in existing research.
- A list of references (which is NOT included in the word count).

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 Content Requirements
The content of your literature review is directly dependent on your topic. However,
the following are required as minimum:
- An appreciation of the professional, legal and ethical issues that are relevant
to the chosen topic.
o For Information Systems Management students this may involve the
ethics of dealing with trade-offs for different groups of stakeholders.
o For Computing students this may involve the ethics of cutting-edge
software development for commercial purposes.
o For Artificial Intelligence students, this may involve the significant legal
and ethical challenges raised by the use of AI.
o For Data Analytics, Internet of Things and Industrial Mathematics
students, this may involve issues related to data privacy and protection.
o For Cyber Security and Digital Forensics students, this may involve
looking into ethical hacking.
- A critical analysis of the most important academic publications relevant to the
chosen topic, summarising their content, strengths and weaknesses.
- Referencing must strictly follow the APA 7th style which is used at the
University of Huddersfield.

4. Marking Scheme

Assessment Criterion Weighting %

Appreciation of relevant issues 25
Critical analysis 40
Breadth of references 15
Presentation 10
Citation style 10

5. Grading Rubric

A detailed grading rubric is available on the next page.

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 Marks Available
Criterion 0 to 29% 30-39% 40-49% 50 - 59% 60 - 69% 70 - 79% 80-89% ≥ 90%
Adequate but not Outstanding and
Little to no Nearly excellent Exceptional and
Superficial analysis well-supported Systematic analysis Excellent analysis of deeply insightful
Appreciation appreciation of analysis of insightful analysis of
of professional, legal analysis of of professional, legal professional, legal analysis of
of relevant professional, legal professional, legal professional, legal
and ethical issues professional, legal and ethical issues and ethical issues professional, legal
issues and ethical issues and ethical issues and ethical issues
related to the topic and ethical issues related to the topic related to the topic and ethical issues
related to the topic related to the topic related to the topic
related to the topic related to the topic
Adequate but not Exceptional and Outstanding and
Little to no critical Superficial analysis Systematic analysis Nearly excellent Excellent analysis of
well-supported insightful analysis of deeply insightful
Critical analysis of strengths of strengths and of strengths and analysis of strengths strengths and
analysis of strengths strengths and analysis of strengths
analysis and weaknesses of weaknesses of weaknesses of and weaknesses of weaknesses of
and weaknesses of weaknesses of and weaknesses of
reviewed work reviewed work reviewed work reviewed work reviewed work
reviewed work reviewed work reviewed work
Adequate use of
Predominant and
Very poor attempt Poor attempt to Use of literature primary articles with Predominant use of Predominant use of
Over-reliance on comprehensive use
to explore literature. explore literature. limited to a few some reliance on primary articles. primary articles.
non-primary articles. of primary articles.
Breadth of Very few to no Very few articles articles and reviews. reviews or other Adequate articles Many articles
Limited number of Many articles
references articles presented presented from Very limited number documents. Some presented from presented from
recent or seminal presented from
from recent or recent or seminal of recent or seminal articles not from recent or seminal recent or seminal
articles. recent or seminal
seminal publications publications or recent articles. recent or seminal publications publications
publications.
publications
No grammatical No grammatical or
Minor grammatical No grammatical or
Minor grammatical errors and minor spelling errors.
Major grammatical Many grammatical or spelling errors. spelling errors.
Major grammatical or spelling errors. spelling errors. Writing on par with
or spelling errors. or spelling errors. Writing on par with Report publishable
and spelling errors. Scientific writing on Writing on par with excellent,
Writing barely Scientific writing on nationally in world-leading
Presentation No evidence of an adequate level. internationally internationally
scientific. Few or a low level. Most recognised venues. international
scientific writing. No Most figures recognised venues. recognised venues.
largely irrelevant figures accurate but Most figures venues. All figures
relevant figures accurate, some not Almost all figures All figures accurate,
figures not very relevant accurate and accurate, focused
very relevant accurate, focused focused and
informative and informative
and informative informative
Citation style
Citation style mostly
Little to no evidence Citation style partly somewhat Citation style correct
consistent. Some Citation style Citation style correct
of use of citation Citation style mostly inappropriate. Many consistent. Many and accurate
references consistent. and consistent.
Citation style. Little to no inappropriate. Many inconsistencies references throughout.
inconsistent Reference list almost Reference list
style consistency and inconsistencies and between text and inconsistent Reference list
between text and complete, with complete, but with a
accuracy in errors list with many major between text and completely accurate
list, with many some minor errors few minor errors
reference list errors list, with many with no errors
minor errors
minor errors