Outline Rubric
0) Due October 27th (11:59pm) on Desire to Learn. Hardcopies will not be accepted/graded on time or late. Will be accepted late until November 1st (11:59pm) for 10% late penalty. I will only accept copies that are submitted to Desire to Learn; emailed papers will not be accepted/graded.
1) Use the "outline template.docx." Failure to adhere to the template will cause a loss of points. The brackets show where you are supposed to insert something. Remove the brackets after inserting something. For example "[Your Name]" becomes "Nicholas Keller". Leaving in any brackets will result in 1% penalty.
3) You must upload a ".docx" not a ".doc" or ".pdf". This is so I can add comments and edits with track changes. Failure to upload a ".docx" will result in a 5% penalty.
4) For the "Future Computer-Based Threats to Employment" and "Future Computer-Based Benefits to Employment" sections number each item in your list. For each item include 3-10 sentences discussing it; to many or too few sentences can result in the loss of 10% per item in the lists. For each item in your list include at least one credible reference.
5) Name your file "FirstName_LastName_outline.docx", so for example I would name my file: "Nicholas_Keller_outline.docx". Failure to properly name the file will result in a 5% penalty
7) You need at least 10 references. Wikipedia is not an acceptable reference, but you can go to Wikipedia to find references to use; just make sure you read the reference; don't rely on Wikipedia to interpret the reference for you. I don't expect you to have 10 threats, so that means multiple references for each threat in most cases. 5% penalty for each reference less than 10 you have.
Helpful suggestions
1) Take this outline and abstract seriously, because it will be the only chance for me to critique your analysis before I get your paper. The idea is that you will take the feedback you get from this assignment to make your paper excellent. Additionally, beyond grades the hope is that this assignment will have significant relevancy to your future working life, so you have a strong non-grade related incentive to do a thorough job.
2) Use "The Future of Employment:..." as one of our starting references. Identify your career in the table at the end of this paper.
3) Look for economic (often called "business analysis") explicitly. Don't expect a tech writer talking about the latest technology to necessarily emphasize the effect on employment, although some will mention it.
4) Consider the threats to employment not just to your specific career, but to any jobs that somebody with your degree could get. If these people lose employment in their chosen sub-area, then they will use their degrees to try to get into your career field and drive down wages. For example, if you are a programmer (computer science major) who programs smartphones and for some reason the demand for smartphone programmers decreases, then you will use your computer science degree to try to program other things such as PCs. The surge of programmers switching from smartphone to PC programming will drive down wages for PC programmers. Therefore, if a person goes into PC programming they should also consider the threat computerization poses to smartphone programming because a change in the need for smartphone programmers will also ripple out to their related fields. When there is significant on-the-job training this effect is reduced; in the example above, it will take time for the smartphone programmer to learn how to be an effective PC programmer.