Professional Documents
Culture Documents
(assignment 2):
An Outline
CIS13-3
Enjie Liu
Where Are We?
For your final year project
Done:
Project supervisor
Project Proposal Form
Ethics Form
To do:
Contextual Report
Interim report
Final report
Contextual report – assignment 2
• Contextual Report:
• What does it cover?
• Structure & presentation
• Grading example
• Writing style & referencing
• What next?
Contextual Report
• For certain project, you will need to discuss with your supervisor, if
you need to undertake a market research
Literature Review
• Title page
• Contents Page
• Section 1 Introduction
• Section 2 The Literature Review/Market Research
• Section 3 Project plan
• Section 4 Planning your artefact
• References
• Appendices
What goes into the contextual
report?
Project brief & report
• Title page structure:
• Contents Page
- Goal of project
• Section 1 Introduction - Context of project
• Section 2 Literature Review - Overall objectives
- Techniques for realisation
• Section 3 Project plan - Structure of contextual
• Section 4 Planning your artefact report
• References
• Appendices
What goes into the contextual
report?
- Literature Review
• What is the latest
• Title page
achievement/technologies/
• Contents Page tools/approaches in your
• Section 1 Introduction chosen area
• Reference to existing
• Section 2 Literature Review work
• Section 3 Project Plan • Comparative analysis
• Section 4 Planning your artefact
- Market research
• References • Reference to clients
• Appendices • Patterns & analysis
• Requirement
specifications
What goes into the contextual
report?
• Title page
• Contents Page
• Section 1 Introduction
• Section 2 Contextual Review
• Section 3 Project plan
• Section 4 Planning your artefact
• References
• Appendices Tasks, and when to start and
finish the tasks
What goes into the contextual
report?
• Title page
• Contents Page
• Section 1 Introduction
• Section 2 Contextual Review
• Section 3 Project plan
• Section 4 Planning your artefact
• References
Requirements, Design,
• Appendices Testing strategy, and
Evaluation strategy
Sample contents in the
contextual report?
• Title page
• Contents Page
• Chapter 1 Introduction This assignment
• Chapter 2 The Literature Review
• Chapter 3 Design
When you do the main
• Chapter 4 Implementation implementation work on
• Chapter 4 Evaluation your project you will
complete these chapters
• Chapter 5 Conclusion
• References
• Appendices
Marking Scheme
• Work out how the material that you have got fits together
• Try drawing a mind map or other graphic – use this to organize
the sections as you write them
Writing style (II)
Not
• The main principles of traditional animation that can be applied
to computer animation are explained by Lasseter [87]
• You must paraphrase (write the ideas in your own words) or put
in quotes if you use somebody else’s words
• Even if you paraphrase, you still need to provide the reference
so the reader knows where you got your information from and
how reliable it is.
• Always include short reference in body of text and full reference
in references list at end of report