Summary: Grading for 6100 Project Proposal
· Objective Did the authors clearly state their objective in the abstract and throughout the
paper? Can I tell easily what the objective of the work it?
· Previous Work Do the authors adequately describe previous work in their own words? Is
the previous work understandable?
· References Is the proposed research based on current research? Do the authors have
adequate references (2 or more, some of which are after 2000)? Are the references
complete (author, publication, title, volume, page numbers)? Are the references from
respected sources (IEEE or ACM publications or conferences rather than trade journals or
unreferreed publications from web sites)? Are the references from a variety of authors
rather than all from the same research group? Are references cited correctly throughout the
report (in the same way that articles cite references)? For each paragraph, it is clear
whether the material is original or a paraphrase of a specific reference? Are direct
quotations of text or figures minimized? If figures are copied from another source, is the
original reference clearly cited for the origin of the figure?
· Creativity Does the project incorporate the authors' own opinions or ideas? Will anyone
care what they have done? Are the tests created to generate non-obvious results? Does the
project idea have a possibility of being published (if several more months of work were
added)? If figures are copied from a cited source, is the cite referenced, the figure numbers
made consistent with the target document, and is the number of such copied figures