The Outline of a Response Thesis Statement: (Write the sentence in full. Include a topic, a claim, and the preview of the body: 2/3/ Aspects/Focal Points.) _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ ‬Body paragraph 1 Topic sentence: (Write the sentence in full. Include a topic and a claim) _______________________________________________________________________________________ Supporting idea 1: (Write key words or phrases) _______________________________________________________________________________________ Supporting idea 2: (Write key words or phrases) _______________________________________________________________________________________ ‬Body paragraph 2 Topic sentence: (Write the sentence in full. Include a topic and a claim) _______________________________________________________________________________________ Supporting idea 1: (Write key words or phrases) _______________________________________________________________________________________ Supporting idea 2: (Write key words or phrases) _______________________________________________________________________________________ ‬Body paragraph 3 Topic sentence: (Write the sentence in full. Include a topic and a claim) _______________________________________________________________________________________ Supporting idea 1: (Write key words or phrases) _______________________________________________________________________________________ Supporting idea 2: (Write key words or phrases) _______________________________________________________________________________________ ‬1.    ______________________________________________________
 2.  ___________________________________ Prepared by: Assoc. Prof. Nalin Sharda May 2017 Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines  Unit Code  MN501  Unit Title  Network Management in Organisations Term, Year  Term‐2, 2017  Assessment  Type  Assignment‐2  Assessment  Title  Essay and Power Point on Legal, Social, Cultural Issues and Life‐Long Learning Purpose of the  assessment  (with ULO  Mapping)  The purpose of this assignment is to develop skills in research, critical analysis  and academic writing of high standard. In this assignment students will:   Identify potential legal, ethical and social issues related to IT administration.  Discuss ethical and social issues pertaining to IT systems administration.   Interpret professional codes of ethics developed by various industry bodies.  Discuss ethical behaviour in accordance with professional codes.   Explain ethical solutions to ensure that the society benefits.  Students must be able to generate ideas at abstract  levels and support their  arguments  with  strong  reasoning.  Students  must  strengthen  critical  thinking  skills by answering the assignment.  Weight  20%  Total Marks  40  Word limit  800 ‐ 1500  Due Date   Es ...

1. The Outline of a Response
Thesis Statement: (Write the sentence in full. Include a topic, a
claim, and the preview of the body:
2/3/ Aspects/Focal Points.)
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Body paragraph 1
Topic sentence: (Write the sentence in full. Include a topic and
a claim)
_____________________________________________________
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Supporting idea 1: (Write key words or phrases)
_____________________________________________________
__________________________________
Supporting idea 2: (Write key words or phrases)
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Body paragraph 2
Topic sentence: (Write the sentence in full. Include a topic and
a claim)
_____________________________________________________
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Supporting idea 1: (Write key words or phrases)
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Supporting idea 2: (Write key words or phrases)
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Body paragraph 3
Topic sentence: (Write the sentence in full. Include a topic and

2. a claim)
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Supporting idea 1: (Write key words or phrases)
_____________________________________________________
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Supporting idea 2: (Write key words or phrases)
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Prepared by: Assoc. Prof. Nalin Sharda May 2017
Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines
Unit Code MN501
Unit Title Network Management in Organisations
Term, Year Term‐2, 2017
Assessment
Type
Assignment‐2

3. Assessment
Title
Essay and Power Point on Legal, Social, Cultural Issues
and Life‐Long Learning
Purpose of the
assessment
(with ULO
Mapping)
The purpose of this assignment is to develop skills in research,
critical analysis
and academic writing of high standard. In this assignment stude
nts will:
Identify potential legal, ethical and social issues related to IT a
dministration.
Discuss ethical and social issues pertaining to IT systems admin
istration.
Interpret professional codes of ethics developed by various indu
stry bodies.
Discuss ethical behaviour in accordance with professional codes
.
ethical solutions to ensure that the society benefits.
Students must be able to generate ideas at abstract
levels and support their
arguments with strong reasoning. Students must strengthen
critical thinking
skills by answering the assignment.

4. Weight 20%
Total Marks 40
Word limit 800 ‐ 1500
Due Date Essay and PowerPoint: Week‐11 Friday 00.00 Hrs.
Submission
Guidelines
work must be submitted on Moodle by the due date.
The assignment must be in MS Word format, 1.5 spacing, 11‐pt
Calibri (Body)
font and 2 cm margins on all four sides of your page with specif
ies heading
and appropriate sub‐headings.
sources must be cited in the text of the
report, and listed
appropriately at the end in a reference list.
Extension
If an extension of time to submit work is required, a Special Co
nsideration
Application must be submitted directly to the School's Administ
ration Officer,
in Melbourne on Level 6 or in Sydney on Level 7. You
must submit this
application three working days prior to the due date of
the assignment.
Further information is available at:
http://www.mit.edu.au/about‐mit/institute‐publications/policies‐
procedures‐and‐guidelines/specialconsiderationdeferment

5. Academic
Misconduct
Academic Misconduct is a serious offence. Depending on the se
riousness of
the case, penalties can vary from a written warning or zero mark
s to exclusion
from the course or rescinding the degree. Students should make
themselves
familiar with the full policy and procedure available at:
http://www.mit.edu.au/about‐mit/institute‐publications/policies‐
procedures‐and‐guidelines/Plagiarism‐Academic‐Misconduct‐Po
licy‐
Procedure. For further information, please refer to the Academi
c Integrity
Section in your Unit Description.
MN501 Network Management in Organisations Page 2 of 3
Assignment Description
A) Write an essay on one of the following topics. 800 –
1500 words 20 Marks
B) PowerPoint presentation based on the above essay. 6 –
10 Slides 20 Marks
For referencing, use APA or IEEE guidelines, but consistently.

6. Your topic is the one listed below based on the last digit of your
student ID at MIT.
Topics:
Topic Last Digit of
your MIT ID
0)
Privacy laws and principles important for doing business interna
tionally. 0 or 5
1)
Threat to personal privacy posed by the emerging Networking
Technologies.
1 or 6
2)
Developing guidelines for Ethical use of the computers and net
works in
any organisation.
2 or 7
3)
Intellectual Property rules and processes important for conducti
ng high‐
tech business.
3 or 8

7. 4)
Ethical and social issues that will affect the society as Artificial
Intelligence based systems replace many jobs in the future.
4 or 9
Marking criteria:
Headings to be
included in each
answer
Description of the section Essay PowerPoint
Presentation
Total
Introduction Introduce the issues 2 2 4
Identification Identify the most important
issues
4 4 8
Analyses Analyse above identified issues 4 4 8
Evaluation Evaluate the issues and write
justification of your evaluation
4 4 8

8. Conclusion Write clear conclusion 4 4 8
References Follow APA or IEEE reference
style
2 2 4
Total 20 20 40
MN501 Network Management in Organisations Page 3 of 3
Marking Rubric
Grade
Mark
HD
80‐100%
DI
70‐79%
CR
60‐69%
P
50‐59%
Fail
<50%

9. Excellent Very Good Good Satisfactory Unsatisfactory
Introduction
All topics are
pertinent and
covered in depth.
Ability to think
critically and
source material is
demonstrated
Topics are
relevant and
soundly
analysed.
Generally
relevant and
analysed.
Some relevance
and briefly
presented.
This is not
relevant to the
assignment
topic.
Identification

10. Demonstrated
excellent ability to
think critically and
sourced reference
material
appropriately
Demonstrat
ed excellent
ability to
think
critically but
did not
source
reference
material
appropriatel
y
Demonstrated
ability to think
critically and
sourced
reference
material
appropriately
Demonstrated
ability to think
critically and did
not source
reference
material
appropriately
Did not

11. demonstrate
ability to think
critically and
did not source
reference
material
appropriately
Analyse
Logic is clear and
easy to follow with
strong arguments
Consistency
logical and
convincing
Mostly
consistent
logical and
convincing
Adequate
cohesion and
conviction
Argument is
confused and
disjointed
Evaluate/justific
ation

12. Excellent use of
creditable sources.
Accurate
referencing.
Obvious that
outstanding effort
made
Extremely
good effort
Good effort
made but not
outstanding
Made some
effort. For
example, Web
searches only
Very little
attempt to
reference. Lazy
effort with
inaccuracies
Conclusion
Logic is clear and
easy to follow with
strong arguments

13. Consistency
logical and
convincing
Mostly
consistent
logical and
convincing
Adequate
cohesion and
conviction
Argument is
confused and
disjointed
Reference style
Clear styles with
excellent source of
references.
Clear
referencing
style
Generally good
referencing
style
Sometimes
clear

14. referencing
style
Lacks
consistency
with many
errors