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Academic Year: 2020/2021
Module: SE6025/SE7021 Electronic and Electrical Engineering Individual
Project
Degree: BEng/MEng in Electronic & Electrical Engineering
Element: CW3 Dissertation (Overall 60%)

Advice on Producing Dissertation/Project Report

In writing the dissertation/project report, you start from the position that the reader
does not necessarily know very much about your project. In doing this you not only
tell the reader about your project but in doing so you demonstrate you understanding
of the project.

The dissertation/project report will consist of a chapter for:

(1) Introduction: In this chapter tell the reader about the project. State what the
project is about, why you are doing it, what is your aim, what is your method or
strategy for doing the project and what are your key objectives? In other words it will
be similar to the project plan report.

(2) Context: In this chapter you set the context i.e. background information that the
reader needs to know in terms of information before you write about your work in the
main body of the report. This chapter will include references to work already
undertaken that is relevant to your project, i.e. a literature review. It could also
include an overview of the topic including diagrams.

Main body: consisting of the work undertaken organised into the appropriate
sections, i.e. there might be four of five chapters in the main body. I normally prefer a
summary and a brief evaluation of the work done at the end of each chapter. This
should be structured into the different types of work done work, have chronology i.e.
the earliest part of the project is normally written first and the latter stages are written
last. In these chapters you have to describe the work done, all of it what was done,
what worked what didn’t, why it didn’t work. This is very important because, some
approaches that didn’t work for you may still have been good approaches and could
be used or modified by somebody else. In some cases the ones that didn’t work still
may be a good result, because it tells the reader that probably the approaches aren’t
that beneficial and can be avoided in future.

In this main body decide what phases of your work are to go in which chapters.

Summary Evaluation: Critically evaluate what you have done on your project, mainly
this is technical but also evaluate the way in which you did the project.

Conclusions: Draw conclusions from your project, these are derived from your
evaluation justify your conclusions.

Further recommendations for study: in this chapter make suggestions for future work
based on your conclusions.

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