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Below is a list of the component parts of a submitted report.

· Title pages

· Abstract

· Acknowledgements(if necessary)

· Contents

· Introduction

· Section/Chapter 1

· Section/Chapter 2

· Conclusions

· References and Bibliography

· Appendices

You may have acknowledgements ( not to your supervisor but to people who have supplied information. These usually appear on a separate page

All appendices must be referred to in the text. The order of appendices is as they appear in the text. You should be able to read the text without referring to the appendices. If necessary, summarise the appendix in words or a diagram (graph etc). to keep the flow of the text.

Ensure that diagrams are close to the relevant part of the text so that the reader does not have to flip pages too much. Ensure that all of the diagrams are referred to in the text (more than once if necessary). You may wish to have diagrams on different pages to the text.

Unless you cannot avoid it, ensure that all text, tables, diagrams etc are arranged down a vertical page (portrait style) so that the reader does not have to turn the project to read the page.