March 25, 2026
Requirements for the Research Paper for cs410:
1. 5-8 pages
2. topic of your choice - get it specific enough - choose something you are interested in 
3. find and read 2 academic references and any other refs you like, submit Bibliography first 
4. think of a question you want to explore and explain it in Ch1 Introduction 
5. guess your conclusion for Ch5 as a way of directing your work
6. draw a hardware diagram if you can use one to anchor your topic
7. draw a full stack diagram if you can use one to layer your topic 
8. make your Ch2, Ch3, Ch4 follow your path of exploration 
9. put your conclusions from each of Ch2, Ch3, Ch4 and overall in Ch5 Conclusion 
10.write Footnotes
11.write Bibliography
12.submit a draft to get comments on how your question is doing as you step toward conclusion 
13.keep incremental drafts of chapters and the whole report so you can show your thought process
14.use of chatgpt for some parts is okay if you cite with date and prompt(s) but your ideas count 
15.turn in your research report as nnnn.pdf in your course dir by Thurs 4/23