@article{445, keywords = {Design Science Research, students' report writing, design science report, postgraduate education, research reports}, author = {Alta van der Merwe and Aurona Gerber and Hanlie Smuts}, title = {Mapping a Design Science Research Cycle to the Postgraduate Research Report}, abstract = {Design science research (DSR) is well-known in different domains, including information systems (IS), for the construction of artefacts. One of the most challenging aspects of IS postgraduate studies (with DSR) is determining the structure of the study and its report, which should reflect all the components necessary to build a convincing argument in support of such a study’s claims or assertions. Analysing several postgraduate IS-DSR reports as examples, this paper presents a mapping between recommendable structures for research reports and the DSR process model of Vaishnavi and Kuechler, which several of our current postgraduate students have found helpful.}, year = {2017}, journal = {Communications in Computer and Information Science}, volume = {730}, chapter = {293-308}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Cham}, isbn = {978-3-319-69670-6}, url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-69670-6_21}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-69670-6_21}, }