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Recommendation Report
Learning Objectives

• What is Recommendation Report?

• Structure of a Recommendation Report
• Format and types of Recommendation Report
• Recommendation and Proposal Report
• Referencing Style 

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Last Week Summary

What is Progress Report

Structure a progress Report
Daily, Weekly and Monthly Report
Function and Content of Progress Report
Time and Format of Progress Report
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Format of Recommendation Report

 

 Introduction
 Problem Statement
 Recommendation statement
 Scope and plan of the report.
Extended or explained recommendation.
Discuss advantages of proposed idea.
Discuss disadvantages of the present idea.
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Style of Referencing

• APA Style of Referencing

• IEEE Style of Referencing
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• WHAT IS APA'S STYLE OF REFERENCE CITATION? 
• APA style uses the author/date method of citation in which the author's last name and the year of the
publication are inserted in the actual text of the paper. It is the style recommended by the American
Psychological Association and used in many of the social sciences

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APA Style of Referencing

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APA Style of Referencing

• Luther, J. (2002). White paper on electronic journal usage statistics. The
Serials Librarian, 41(2), 119-148.
• Dowson, D. J. D. B. C. N., Hudson, J. D., Hunter, B., & March, C. N.
(1966, June). Paper 3: An experimental investigation of the thermal
equilibrium of steadily loaded journal bearings. In Proceedings of the
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Conference Proceedings (Vol. 181,
No. 2, pp. 70-80). Sage UK: London, England: SAGE Publications.

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IEEE Style of Referencing

The Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a

professional organization supporting many branches of engineering,
computer science, and information technology. In addition to publishing
journals, magazines, and conference proceedings, IEEE also makes many
standards for a wide variety of industries.
IEEE citation style includes in-text citations, numbered in square brackets,
which refer to the full citation listed in the reference list at the end of the
paper. The reference list is organized numerically, not alphabetically.. 
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IEEE Style of Referencing

L. Liu and H. Miao, "A specification based approach to testing polymorphic

attributes," in Formal Methods and Software Engineering: Proceedings of
the 6th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM
2004, Seattle, WA, USA, November 8-12, 2004, J. Davies, W. Schulte, M.
Barnett, Eds. Berlin: Springer, 2004. pp. 306-19.

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Assignment-13
 
• Carefully read the lesson plans and give ten recommendation for the
improvement of your Final year project (must be in the form of
recommendation report format)
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