Putting It All Together
1. Consult the grading rubric for specific content and formatting requirements for this assignment.
2. Your 8 to 12 page OSINT report should be professional in appearance with consistent use of
fonts, font sizes, margins, etc. You should use headings and page breaks to organize your paper.
Title page, table of contents, and reference list do not count against the page count. Remember
that your audience will benefit more from a clear, concise, and accurate presentation of
information. Adding extra content just to artificially meet a page count (or exceeding the
recommended length by adding filler) will not improve your grade.
3. Your paper should use standard terms and definitions for cybersecurity.
4. The CSIA program recommends that you follow standard APA formatting since this will give you
a document that meets the “professional appearance” requirements. APA formatting guidelines
and examples are found under Course Resources. An APA template file (MS Word format) has
also been provided for your use. CSIA_Paper_Template(TOC+TOF,2021).docx. This file has the
style gallery set up so that you can use the built-in features of MS Word to generate a Table of
Contents and, if needed, a Table of Figures.
5. Your submitted file must include a separate cover page at the beginning which provides the
assignment title, your name, and the due date. Your reference list must begin with a new
(separate) page at the end of your file.
6. You are expected to write grammatically correct English in every assignment that you submit for
grading. Do not turn in any work without (a) using spell check, (b) using grammar check, (c)
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verifying that your punctuation is correct and (d) reviewing your work for correct word usage
and correctly structured sentences and paragraphs.
7. You are expected to credit your sources using in-text citations and reference list entries. Both
your citations and your reference list entries must follow a consistent citation style (APA, MLA,
etc.).
8. See the “Examples” section (below) for information about how to create a Table of Contents and
Table of Figures. The built-in help for MS Word will also walk you through creating these content
elements for your OSINT report.