Data Transmission

Do the research post with replies on one of the MAIN aspects (most interesting for you) of chapter 4 in the
Data Transmission forum. Since it is a small research post – it should be focused. In the opening sentence
of your post, you should state the focus (narrow topic) of your research by clearly saying that the focus is…
In the closing part of your post, you should state the results of this mini-research (like the presented
analysis showed…). The absence of the focus and closing statement will lead to the decreased grade
Replies without Web references are considered inferior, of lower quality than the ones using Web material
to support your argument in the reply post. Replies should have some meaningful substance adding to the
focus area of the main post, clarifying some aspects of it, or disagreeing with some statements of the main
post with proper justification of such opinion.
Research post means that you read the book, understand the material, read extra information on the Web
on interesting for you aspect (one of the main aspects) of the chapter material, and formulate your own
thoughts, position, analysis, comparison of info from different sources, etc. on this topic supported by Web
references.
Since you are on the curve – you need to collect all points available as well as show that you strive for highquality work. Min size of the post is 350 words (do not use too large quotes) but mainly to support your
position, summary, conclusion, etc. Even if you somewhat modify words from any Internet source – they
have to be quoted too by putting such info in bold, otherwise, it is plagiarism. In order for your personal
research contribution, thoughts, results to be visible – use phrases like: “I think…”, “summarizing … I
conclude”, or “comparing … and … I can say that, ” etc.