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Computer Science @ Rochester

CSC242: Intro to Artificial Intelligence
Spring 2012
Upper Level Writing

Students may elect to use this course to fulfill their Upper Level Writing requirement. It's not a bad idea, since I like reading essays and AI has plenty of great topics to write about.

Please see the Computer Science Department's requirements for Upper Level Writing, part of the URCS Undergraduate Handbook (Section 6 as of this writing). To fulfill these requirements, you will submit two drafts of your essay for review before the final version is due at the end of term. Your essay should be no less than 8 pages at the first draft (and shouldn't get any shorter subsequently).

Schedule

Here's the schedule for ULW in 242:

Topics

For topics, browse the textbook for interesting subject areas, especially those not covered in the syllabus. The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence has some very nice AI Topics pages with lots of ideas and suggestions for further reading or viewing.

One warning: Like AI problems, AI topics are big and complicated. Whatever you choose, you will need to focus. If this is not a strength for you, make an outline and edit aggressively.

Suggestions

Given a topic, I suggest that you follow one of the following approaches for writing your essay: Of course other approaches are also possible. Just keep your reader (me) in mind.

Last update: Thursday, 26-Jan-2012 10:30:37 EST