2.

Format(Lay out) of the Research Report

The entire research report is mainly divided into 3 major divisions

The Beginning The Main Body The End

• Introduction
• Title Page
• Review of Literature • References
• Acknowledgements
• Designs of Research • Bibliography
• Contents
• Analysis and • Appendices
• List of Tables
interpretation of data
• List of Figures
• Major Findings and
• Glossary
Conclusions

Preliminary Main Text End Matter

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2.1. The Beginning: Title Page

• Title of the Topic

• Relation of the report to a degree course or organisational requirement

• Name of the researcher

• Name of the supervisor

• Name of the institutions where the report is to be submitted

• The date and year of submission

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• Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements should include a short statement of the problem followed

by the list of people who have extended help in conducting the study.As far as
possible it should be simple and specific.

• Contents

A table of contents indicates the logical division of the report into

various sections, sub sections and chapters
It should indicate the page reference for each chapter or sections
and sub sections on the right hand side of the table. The contents
till the start of the first chapter are given roman numerals i,ii etc.
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 A hypothetical way of writing the content (for your
Project)
CONTENTS
Page
Certificate i
Declaration ii
Acknowledgement iii
Table of Contents iv
List of Tables v
Chapter
I Introduction 1-7
II Review of Literature 8-17
III Methodology and Sample Design 18-20
IV Analysis 21-33
V Summary Findings and Conclusions/ 34-35
Conclusions and Suggestions

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References 36-37
Samples(Ph D Thesis)

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• List of Tables

The list of Tables contains the exact title of the table, table no and page no

List of tables is usually in capital letters

Here we should not write No (i.e number) either with the table or with the
page

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LIST OF TABLES
Table Title Page
1 -------------------- 10
2 --------------------- 19
3
4
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• List of Figures
It comes immediately after the page of the List of Tables

Written in the same way as the List of Tables

List of figures is written in capital letters

The sequence is figure, title and page

We only give figure and page neither figure No. or page No

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LIST OF FIGURES
Figure Title Page
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2 --------------------- 21
3
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Glossary

• A Glossary is a short dictionary, explaining the technical terms and

phrases which are used in special connotation by the author.
• Written in capital letters.
• Entries are made in alphabetical order.
• It may come in the introductory pages although it usually comes after
the Bibliography.

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 Sample of Glossary
GLOSSARY
APP : Average Physical Productivity or average productivity of a factor.
It is the output per unit of a factor of production.
MPP: Marginal Physical productivity of a factor. It is the addition to
total output for the use of an additional unit of factor.
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 Abbreviations
• To avoid repeating long names again again a researcher uses abbreviations

• Since abbreviations are not universal it is necessary to give the full forms in the beginning

• Capital letters are used for abbreviations

Sample
ABBREVIATIONS

IMR: Infant Mortality Rate

MMR: Maternal Mortality Rate
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