Joshua Byun ENGH121-AC2 Feb 18th, 2014 Software Engineering

A journal article about Software engineering education: A study on conducting collaborative senior project development by Chung-Yang Chen, graduated from National Central University with department of information management, introduces how soft engineering education teamwork is significant for students to cooperate and to help each other throughout their experiences. There are experienced and inexperienced students, so the author asserts students need to participate in a teamwork-group to lead each other for their success.

Chung-Yang Chen organizes the text of his article in an informative essay structure that divides each detail of ideas into introduction, body paragraphs and conclusion. First, in an introduction, he deploys the three methods of students needs. These needs teach the readers information of significance of participation, teamworks cooperation and encouragement. To specifically describe how they are significantly important to those software engineer students, the author funnels down each detail by providing specific information from dividing each section into paragraphs. Chun-Yang mentions some of articles and uses a style of funneling. He does not create his own writing, but researches articles and sets titles for each section.

The essay structure that Chung-Yang Chen provided in a chronological order reflects values and methods. He divides sections into seven and describes each method for students to

measure the qualitative and educational effects on the various project stakeholders. In page 480, at the second paragraph, the author organizes as the follows: Section 2 presents a survey of related literature. Section 3 presents the research method, the project case and the approach. The quantitative investigation is described in Section 4. The findings from the focus group analysis are presented in Section 5. Section 6 discusses the validation of the project case and analysis. Section 7 concludes the discussion and offers outlines for future research directions. The author is trying to tell readers that these sections are the steps which will give benefit to students from following them precisely.

Not only the author has high educational background, he has also well researched other articles and analyzed them with a clear statement. The structure of this article is well organized and described with logical thoughts as a professional writer. The details and the research he had worked on were precisely explained. He also has put his own opinions in his article to inform the readers what is good or bad. Chung-Yang Chen provides each quote from different people with specific dates. This article is scholarly well written with complex ideas and thoughts.

Based on the Chung-Yang Chens article, generally the structure and the details he used are detailed, organized and clear. He described and researched about the significance of teamwork between experienced and inexperienced students. He wrote his article as the research from using different quotes and summarizing other articles. He concludes his journal by giving gratitude to the Taiwan National Science Council and the anonymous reviewers for their contributive comments. (Word 477)

Citation Chen, C.-, & Chong, P. (2009). Software engineering education: A study on conducting collaborative senior. The Journals of Systems and Software, 479-491. Retrieved from https://mymasonportal.gmu.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboar d%2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_218419_1%26url%3D