WILLIAM CAREY

UNIVERSITY
Orientation on Formats: Project Report
and Dissertation
9 March 2016

A Good Plan is like a

road map, it shows the
final destination and
usually the best ways to
get there

CHAPTER I: Introduction
Attract the
reader's
attention:
What is the
point of the
paper
Establish the
significance of
your view point

1. 1. Statement of the Problem

Aproblem
statementis
a brief
description of
theissuesth
at need to be
addressed

1.2. Rationale of study

1.3. Geographical Location of

the Research

1.4. Scope of the Study

1.5. Significance of the Study

Consider the following:
Why is this work important?
What are the implications/consequences of
doing it?
How does it link to other knowledge?
How does it stand to inform policy making?
Save money? Improve or reduce something?
Why is it important to our understanding of
the world?
What new perspective will you bring to the
topic?
What use might your final research paper have
for others in this field or in the general public?
Who might you decide to share your findings
with once the projectis complete?

1.6. Hypothesis

Examples: Hypotheses
More students get sick during the final week of exams than at
other times.
There is a positive correlation between the availability of hours
for work and the productivity of employees.
Worker satisfaction increases worker productivity.
Amount of sun exposure will increase the growth of a tomato
plant.
Childhood obesity is tied to the amount of sugary drinks ingested
daily.
A dog can be trained to alert a human if the telephone is ringing.

1.7. Goals/Objectives of the

study

1.8 Brief Review of Literature

1. Books:
2. Articles: published and unpublished :

Methods

1.9. Methodology
Data Collection Methods:
Sites Investigated
Software Packages:
Period of Investigation:
Population and Sample Surveyed:
Interview arrangements
Construction of
questionnaires/interview questions
Reference to detailed information
provided in appendices:

1.10. Limitations of the study

Chapter II- Review of

Literature
What do you do?
Summarize,
Classify and
Compare prior research studies

Other Chapterization
Chapter III:

Chapter IV:
Chapter V
Chapter VI:
Chapter VII:
Chapter VIII: etc.

Bibliography
The Look East Policy and North East India by
Gorky Chakravorty and Asok Kumar Ray, New
Delhi, Akar Books, 2014
Chakravorty, Gorky and Asok Kumar Ray, The
Look East Policy and North East India, New
Delhi: Akar Books, 2014

Thongkholal Haokip, Indias Look East Policy and

the North East, India, Sage Publications, 201 5
Haokip, Thongkholal, Indias Look East Policy
and the North East, India: Sage Publications,
201 5

 Constitutional History of India by Dr.

M.V.Pylee, New Delhi, S. Chand, 2012
Pylee, M. V., Constitutional History of
India, New Delhi, S. Chand, 2012

Look East Policy: Impact on North East India

by Charles Reuben Lyngdoh and Merostar
Rani, Akansha Publishers New Delhi, 2008
Lyngdoh, Charles Reuben and Merostar
Rani, Look East Policy: Impact on North
East India, Akansha Publishers: New Delhi,
2008

REFERENCES
Referencesusually come at the end of a
text (essay or research report) and
should containonlythose works cited
within the text.
End Notes: At the end of the document,
if your document is brief like a Project
Report
Foot Notes: At the bottom of every
page, if your document is large like a
Dissertation/PhD Thesis

Appendices:

Interview Schedules
Questionnaires
Pictures

Abstract/Executive
Summary

DO NOT COPY

Plagiarism

Many people think of plagiarism as copying

another's work or borrowing someone else's
original ideas. But terms like "copying" and
"borrowing" can disguise the seriousness of the
offense
to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of
another) as one's own
to use (another's production) without crediting
the source
to commit literary theft
to present as new and original an idea or
product derived from an existing source