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Technical Report Writing for Engineering Students
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GENERAL TIPS ON CORRECT LAY-OUT
One of the most important things to remember now is that you are no longer at school and that fancy colours and decorations are OUT. Your approach has to be strictly businesslike.
ESSENTIAL- A VERY CLEAR, NEAT PRESENTATION.
This involves:
1. Typing the report: you should use Times Roman Font Size 12.
2. Using 1.5 or double spacing between every line, and leaving 4 spaces between paragraphs. Your report should not be fully justified i.e. use the page layout command "justify left" only.
3. Giving headings and sub-headings for each section. Capitalising and using bold will make your headings stand out well.
4. Using a clear numbering system.
5. Making really clear diagrams which are both LABELED AND LINKED to the text.
LAY-OUT OF THE CONTENTS PAGE
| Abstract | i |
| Acknowledgements | ii |
| List of Figures | iii |
| List of Tables | iv |
| 1.Introduction
1.1 The Field of Study 1.2 Existing Work Related to the Project etc. |
1 |
| 2. Theoretical Background | 4 |
| 3. Project Description | 7 |
| 4. Product Development | etc |
| 5. Assembly & Testing | |
| 6. Discussion | |
| 7. Conclusion | |
| References | |
| Appendices |
CHECKLIST FOR THE FULL PROJECT REPORT LAY-OUT
The
following is the full list of items you need for a formal report.
TABLE
OF CONTENTS (See above for lay-out).
THE ABSTRACT OR SUMMARY
This is important because it gives the reader a brief overview of what your
project is about. Summaries are read particularly by people doing research.
It saves them a lot of time to see quickly if what they have picked up is relevant
to their research or not. (Notes for this will be found at the end of the checklist.
This is because although this item appears first in the finished report, it
actually has to be written last.)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors wish to express their appreciation
to the following people for their
valuable contributions:
Project
supervisor/s, Mr..... /and Mr .....
The technicians of ........ Labs, Mr .....
THE
LIST OF FIGURES
The
list of figures should be shown as indicated below:
Fig. 1.1 Equivalent circuit of a ...
Fig. 1.2 .....
THE
LIST OF TABLES
The
list of tables should be shown as indicated below:
Table 10.1 The decoding scheme for the ...
Table 10.2 .....
LABELLING DIAGRAMS
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