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Academics / Annual
Awards / Catherine Ofiesh Orner Award |
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The students in the School of Information Sciences are encouraged
to submit papers for the competitive process related to the
above named $500 monetary award. Papers must be submitted
to Dean Ronald Larsen, no later than 5:00
P. M., February 18, 2008, Room 500A IS Building. The
papers will be reviewed by a panel of three judges, one from
Information Science, one from Library and Information Science,
and one authority from outside the University. Papers
must be typewritten and include a cover page with the name
of the author, title of the paper, date of submission and the
statement, "Submitted
for the 2008 Orner Award Competition." Your
name should only appear on the title page to allow for unbiased
judging. |
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The guidelines and the criteria
for the evaluation: |
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The papers for this award must fall into the domain of "Information
Science." A general definition of Information
Science that may be used by those writing papers is: the
field of study which attempts to describe, explain, predict,
and prescribe in a systematized manner, general truths
or the operation of general laws related to the transformation
or process necessary to the generation, use and transfer
of information. The theories and principles of a
number of scientific and technical disciplines may be considered
relevant and applicable to information science as so con-ceived. However,
it is the important function of information science to
determine and define, both theoretically and empirically,
the relational laws and principles that integrate the generation,
use and transfer functions. Such relational laws
and principles so developed provide the basis for the understanding
of information systems and for the design of such systems.
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Papers
must be scholarly in nature. The content of the papers
must demonstrate that the author has a thorough and well-disciplined
knowledge of the area in which he/she is writing as well
as a formal presentation of the concepts and ideas. Theoretical
presentations should be expressed using a formal deductive
or inductive procedure. Experimental presentations
should follow the procedures for a formal research study.
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Papers
must communicate the author's intent in a concise and logical
manner. The organization of the ideas and concepts
should be such that the sequence or flow achieves a continuity
so that the separate parts logically build to the conclusion
or final statement.
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Papers
must be comprehensive and thorough. This implies
that adequate background information, definitions, assumptions
and concepts must be presented in a manner that does not
require judgements to be made about missing elements or
ambiguous terms or ideas.
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Papers
must not be purely descriptive of systems or situations.
Papers that simply describe a system or situation should
not be submitted. Thus, historical papers or "How
we did it as X" are not acceptable. Descriptive
papers dealing with theories or methodologies in a formal
manner are acceptable.
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Papers
should address an important area of information science. Papers
for this award must fall into the framework of information
science as per the preceding definition of information
science. The perceived importance of the topic of
the paper in terms of contributing new knowledge or advancing
the field of information will be a prime factor in judging
the papers.
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The
length of the paper should permit publication in a refereed
journal (e.g., JASIS, Information Sciences, Scientific
American, Science, etc.). The length should approximate
no more than seven to eight pages of single space journal
print.
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