Writing-Across-the-IT/MIS Curriculum

2011 ◽  
pp. 83-98
Author(s):  
Stephanie J. Etter ◽  
Jeffrey W. Merhout
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
College Graduates ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Writing Assignments ◽  
College Board ◽  
Achievable Goal

Popular literature not only claims that college graduates are entering the workforce lacking sufficient writing skills but that companies must spend billions of dollars annually to train employees how to communicate effectively through writing (Canavor & Meirowitz, 2005; College Board, 2004). While writing-across-the-curriculum is not a new concept, it seems that only certain areas of the curriculum have adopted it. The integration of writing into the MIS/IT curriculum is an important and achievable goal necessary for the overall development of students in Information Technology or Management Information Systems degree programs. While traditional IT/MIS programs rely heavily on technology-based courses, we argue that these technology courses must also promote effective writing habits needed for career growth in the IT/MIS fields. As business proposals, newsletters, and reports are frequently being written by those in the Information Systems Department of a corporation, rather than by those in the Communication Department, it is increasingly important that we prepare IT/MIS students with the appropriate writing skills needed for their careers. For example, in many cases we prepare students to create web pages, a highly public information source, without providing any instruction on writing within the IT/MIS curriculum. This paper illustrates how writing assignments can be used in many MIS/IT classes.

Writing-Across-the-IT/MIS Curriculum

2008 ◽  
pp. 3246-3258
Author(s):  
Stephanie J. Etter ◽  
Jeffrey W. Merhout
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
College Graduates ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Writing Assignments ◽  
College Board ◽  
Achievable Goal

Popular literature not only claims that college graduates are entering the workforce lacking sufficient writing skills but that companies must spend billions of dollars annually to train employees how to communicate effectively through writing (Canavor & Meirowitz, 2005; College Board, 2004). While writing-across-the-curriculum is not a new concept, it seems that only certain areas of the curriculum have adopted it. The integration of writing into the MIS/IT curriculum is an important and achievable goal necessary for the overall development of students in Information Technology or Management Information Systems degree programs. While traditional IT/MIS programs rely heavily on technology-based courses, we argue that these technology courses must also promote effective writing habits needed for career growth in the IT/MIS fields. As business proposals, newsletters, and reports are frequently being written by those in the Information Systems Department of a corporation, rather than by those in the Communication Department, it is increasingly important that we prepare IT/MIS students with the appropriate writing skills needed for their careers. For example, in many cases we prepare students to create web pages, a highly public information source, without providing any instruction on writing within the IT/MIS curriculum. This paper illustrates how writing assignments can be used in many MIS/IT classes.

Animal Diversity Web as a Teaching & Learning Tool to Improve Research & Writing Skills in College Biology Courses

2013 ◽  
Vol 75 (7) ◽  
pp. 494-498
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Yahnke ◽  
Tanya Dewey ◽  
Phil Myers
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Animal Species ◽  
College Graduates ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Research Writing ◽  
Learning Tool ◽  
Writing Assignments ◽  
College Biology ◽  
Animal Diversity ◽  
Teaching Learning

Most teachers agree that writing is an important skill for students to master, yet not all teachers incorporate writing assignments in their courses. Employers agree that written communication is important for college graduates, yet in a survey, less than 10% of employers thought that colleges did a good job preparing students for work. Writing an animal species account for Animal Diversity Web (http://animaldiversity.org) provides students with a real-world example of writing skills and provides resources to instructors who want to incorporate writing in their classes.

scholarly journals The use of digital technology in the public administration

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-428
Author(s):  
Sergey E. Channov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Specific Area ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Russian Federation

Introduction. The article is devoted to the use of digital technologies in the field of public administration using the example of state and municipal information systems. Currently, two types of such systems can be distinguished in the Russian Federation: 1) allowing direct enforcement activities; 2) used to capture certain information. Theoretical analysis. Information systems of the first type acquire the properties of an object of complex legal relations, in which suppliers and consumers of information, government bodies, as well as other persons become participants. This entails the fact that in the implementation of public administration, the source of regulation of public relations to a certain extent becomes the program code of these information systems. Accordingly, any failures and errors in the public information system become facts of legal importance. Empirical analysis. The main risks of using information systems of the second type in public administration relate to the illegal access (or use) of information stored in their databases. The consolidation of databases containing different types of information is a serious threat. In this regard, the creation of the Unified Federal Information Register containing information about the population of the Russian Federation, provided for by the Federal Law No. 168-FZ of 08.06.2020, may lead to a large number of socially negative consequences and comes into obvious conflict with the legislation on personal data. Results. State and municipal information systems themselves can improve public administration, including reducing corruption in the country. At the same time, their reduced discretion in management decisions is not always appropriate. Accordingly, their implementation should be preceded by the analysis of the characteristics of a specific area of management, as well as the proposed use of digital technologies.

Social capital or non-human sources? A cross-context study on information source selection of migrant farmer workers

2021 ◽  
pp. 016555152110551
Author(s):  
Fang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Source Selection ◽  
Social Capitals ◽  
Farmer Workers

Insufficient examination of social factors obscures the reason why non-human information sources are under-utilised by social groups with lower information literacy. This study explores the mechanism of information source selection (ISS) of Chinese migrant farmer workers (MFWs) in different industries by conducting a cross-context analysis. After iterative analyses of multiple cases, a theoretical model of information source selection within an individual’s information world is constructed. It explains why MFWs make more use of social capitals than non-human information sources in information seeking. Besides, the information needs are examined form both the needed information and the need itself. A classification of social capital as human information source is created and the roles that social capitals and non-human information sources play in ISS are identified. This study provides novel theoretical insights into the ‘old’ issue of ISS, and thus has practical implications for public information service providers and MFW-related policy makers.

Evaluation of Public Information Systems

2013 ◽  
pp. 135-159
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Performance Analysis ◽  
Performance Measures ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Business Case ◽  
Cost Performance ◽  
Business Plans ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Public Information Systems ◽  
Risk Cost

Evaluation is a key element in preparation of the business case for an IT project. Business plans include discussion of costs and benefits, performance measures, progress milestones, assessment of risk, cost estimates for alternatives, and general justification for the advocated alternative. Approaches to evaluation range from the qualitative and general to the quantitative and specific. As identified in the chapter, evaluation activities may include comparisons of the agency with “best practices,” development of performance measures and benchmarks, and cost-performance analysis.

Web Information Extraction via Web Views

2004 ◽  
pp. 227-267
Author(s):  
Wee Keong Ng ◽  
Zehua Liu ◽  
Zhao Li ◽  
Ee Peng Lim
Keyword(s):  
Information Extraction ◽  
Data Model ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Extraction Process ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Efficient Manner ◽  
Web Information Extraction ◽  
Web Information ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Web

With the explosion of information on the Web, traditional ways of browsing and keyword searching of information over web pages no longer satisfy the demanding needs of web surfers. Web information extraction has emerged as an important research area that aims to automatically extract information from target web pages and convert them into a structured format for further processing. The main issues involved in the extraction process include: (1) the definition of a suitable extraction language; (2) the definition of a data model representing the web information source; (3) the generation of the data model, given a target source; and (4) the extraction and presentation of information according to a given data model. In this chapter, we discuss the challenges of these issues and the approaches that current research activities have taken to revolve these issues. We propose several classification schemes to classify existing approaches of information extraction from different perspectives. Among the existing works, we focus on the Wiccap system — a software system that enables ordinary end-users to obtain information of interest in a simple and efficient manner by constructing personalized web views of information sources.

Healthcare Information Systems and the Semantic Web

2011 ◽  
pp. 178-184
Author(s):  
David Parry
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Semantic Web ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Healthcare Information ◽  
The World ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Source Of Information

The World Wide Web (WWW) is a critical source of information for healthcare. Because of this, systems for allowing increased efficiency and effectiveness of information retrieval and discovery are critical. Increased intelligence in web pages will allow information sharing and discovery to become vastly more efficient .The semantic web is an umbrella term for a series of standards and technologies that will support this development.

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