CASE STUDY REPORT GUIDELINESMQF 7 LOD:

Following are guidelines for preparation of case study report.

Cover Page

Cover page should include student’s name, student ID, submission date & lecturer’s
name.

Format

Case study report must be prepared on an A4 size with 2 cm margins on the left,
right, top and bottom. Prepare the text using Arial font size 12. All text paragraph
should be 1.5 line spaced. Do not include page numbers and running heads.
Figures and images which are not cited in the text should not be presented. All
reports must have Introduction, Content (case study question), Conclusion and
Reference.

Introduction

Introduction should have information pertaining to the case study. Students are
advised to understand the topic and have adequately made their thorough analysis
of the case study before start writing the introduction. Student must able to extract
the correct and appropriate facts in relation to their case study questions. The page
length should be within 1-2 pages that include texts, figures and references in
citation. It should have approximately 700 words.

Content (Case Study Question)

Your content should include information analyzed from the case study and its key
issues. Students need brainstorming among their members to integrate whatever
knowledge sought through the lectures to ascertain a mechanism to solve the case
study. The maximum page length should not exceed more than 4 pages depending
on the questions given. Explanation on the answer for the case study must be
supported with relevant references.
.

Conclusion

It’s a summary of given case study. Conclusion must be in a form of short

paragraph. It must contain your own words excluding references in citation.
Approximately 150 to 200 words.
References

Students are encouraged to use multiple resources namely books, journals article,
scientific magazines and reputable online websites. You are strongly advised to
adhere to UiTM guidelines on thesis writing. Please ensure that references cited in
the text are also present in your references list (vice versa). There must be more
than 4 references and should be in an alphabetical order.

The reference itself must include the following:

 All the author listed on the publication (or on the chapter if citing a book)
 Year of publication (in bracket)
 The title of the paper (or book)
 Editor if a chapter of a book is cited
 Edition if a book is cited
 Volume number
 Issue number (some journal article have an issue number)

How to write the author’s name

Example: Mark Johnson  Johnson, M.

Example: Mohammad Razi Mohamad Jan  Mohamad Razi, M.J.
Example: Jianxin Wang  Wang, J.

Basic Format for Journal Article

Author’s name (Year). Title of article. Title of journal, volume number (issue number),
page number

 One author with volume

Johnson, M. (2017). DNA typing in forensic medicine and in criminal

investigation: a current survey. Nature, 84, 181-188.

 One author with volume and issue number

Butler, J.M. (2016). Genetic and genomic of core short tendem repeat loci
used in human identify testing. J. Forensic Sci., 51(2), 253-265.

 Two authors

Jobling, M.A. and Grill, P. (2004). Encoded evidence: DNA in forensic

analysis. Nature Reviews, (2), 739 – 751.
  Three and more author

Harty, L.C., Garcia, M., Rothman, N., Reid, Y.A., Tucke, M.A. and Hartge. P.
(2002). Collection of buccal cell using treated card. CEBP, (9), 501-
506.

Basic Format for Books

Author’s name (Year). Title of book. (Number of edition). Publisher: Place of

publication. Page number

Weaver, R.F. (2008). Molecular Biology. (4th ed.). McGraw-Hill, New York.
744-748pp.

Basic Format for Article in a Magazine

Author’s name (Year). Title of article. Title of magazine, volume number (issue
number), page number

Hunter, P. (2008). All the evidence. Europian Molecular Biology Organization

(EMBO) Reports, 7 (4), 352-354.

Basic Format for Official Website

Organization name (Year). Entry heading or title. In Title of the webpage. Retrieved
Month Day, Year from website address
magazine, volume number (issue number), page number
Perpustakaan Negara Malaysia (2000). Nation history. In History of Malaysia.
Retrieved February 17, 2009 from http://sejarahmalaysia.pnm.my/

In Text Citation
 One Author
.....Benecke (1997)……………………
Benecke (1997) showed that………………..
……………..(Benecke, 1997).

 Two authors:
……… Jobling and Gill (2004)……………..
Jobling and Gill (2004) showed that…………
……………..(Jobling and Gill, 2004).
  More than two authors:
….as noted by Harty et al. (2000).
Harty et al. (2000) claim that…..
…… (Harty et al., 2000).

*Students may use the link provided below for format references:

 www.citethisforme.com

Turnitin

Students must submit their case studies along with turnitin reports. Turnitin is a
software-as-a-service website which checks submitted documents against its
database and the content of other websites with the aim of identifying plagiarism.
Student’s turnitin reports must contain less than 30% similarities. Kindly refer to your
individual lecturer for further information on how to run your case study reports using
turnitin software.

Assessment Rubric

This assignments are meant to evaluate student’s performances under PLO 7: skills
on Information management and lifelong learning. Thus, for code BIO150 the written
assignment reports are focused mainly on the aspect of skill in information
management. Information management is define as collecting information from one
or more sources and distributing them to one or more users. Below are the details
on assessment rubric for each sub attribute according to the level of applicability
whereas performance criteria measured as very weak, weak, fair, good and very
good.

Guidelines Grading Rubrics For Assessing MQF PLO 7 (Information Management &
Lifelong Learning) In Written Report (10%)