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The project should include the following

a. Front sheet of Title Page

This should show

· the full title of the project,

· your full name,

· your student registration number,

· the title of your degree course

· your project supervisor’s name the total number of words in your project and the Date of submission

b. Abstract

This outlines the project but concentrates on the main conclusions. Place after the title page.

c. Contents page

This should reflect the same style and number as the headings. It should show the page numbers, so do it last of all. The contents page and all the pages before it are not numbered. Page 1 should be the first page of the introduction

d. Chapters/Sections

This is the main part of the project and it is the part in which the markers are most interested. The first chapter is usually an introduction that sets out the aims of the project, the approach adopted in the study and the constraints under which it was completed.

Generally, conclusions come at the end of the project, but there may also be shorter conclusions at the end of each section or chapter. The final chapter would usually contain conclusions and would if necessary summarise and link together any conclusions made earlier in the report.

e. Conclusions

Keep any final conclusions fairly short and do not claim things you have not argued a strong case for in the body of the text.

f. References

References in the text of your project can be done in several ways. The usual way is to type in brackets, the author’s name and the year of the publication at the end of a sentence

The reader can look them up in the bibliography where they would appear in alphabetical order. Footnotes at the bottom of the page are allowed but not for references alone and are generally to be avoided if possible. The purpose of these is to provide a quote or a brief comment (perhaps in addition to a reference) in full that cannot be easily inserted in the text.