AJU SIP Report Preparation Guidelines

The Student Interns are required to follow the Project Report guidelines template to bring
uniformity and standardization in the report structure to be submitted.

1. Each student intern will have to submit two copies of the Project Report. Students are also
required to mail the final copy of the report to their respective Faculty Mentors.
2. The cover page of the Project Report must be hard bound in Black Color with golden
embossing.
3. The text material should be typed with one and a half spacing between the lines. Twelve
point font size is to be used in Times New Roman font.
4. The Title (including sub-heading) on the cover page should be of 14 font size, Caps and
Upper Case, Bold and Centered.
5. Other details on the cover page should be in Times New Roman font of size 12.
6. A left-hand margin of approximately 3-3.5 cm is to be left for adequate space for binding.
The top margin of the first page and of the first page of each succeeding chapter/Section
should be 4 cms. Other top margins, the right side and bottom margins should be a minimum
of 2.5 cm in size.
7. Since SIP/Dissertation is an honors paper, full 100 marks course, the Project Report should
range in length between 40-60 pages.

Project Report Structure

The broad headings of the Chapters will be the following:-

Chapter 1 : Executive Summary

Chapter 2 : Introduction to the Topic
Chapter 2.1 : Latest development in the Specific Topic
Chapter 3: Review of Literature and Research Gap
Chapter 4: Project Objectives
Chapter 5 : Research Methodology
Chapter 5.1 : Selection of the Topic
Chapter 5.2 : Nature of Study
Chapter 5.3 : Scope of Study
Chapter 5.4 : Sampling Procedure and Design
Chapter 5.5 : Method of Data Collection
Chapter 5.6 : Limitations
Chapter 6 : Data Analysis and Interpretation
Chapter 7: Findings
Chapter 8: Suggestions/Recommendations
Chapter 9: Conclusion
Chapter 10: References according to APA citation (For details refer “Business
Communication Today, Tenth edition by Courtland L Bovee, John V Thill and Abha
Chatterjee”, Pearson Publisher, (Page –A-24 to A-26)

Chapter 11: Annexures (Table of data, Copy of Questionnaire, Product Catalogues-whichever

is applicable)