Summer Project Report

1. Summer Project Report
Dr. Gopal Thapa
Associate Professor
Tribhuvan University

2. ACTIVITIES INVOLVED IN WRITING A
SP REPORT
◼ Selecting a relevant topic or issue for the study
◼ Getting approval of the Research Committee to pursue the
proposed study
◼ Locating the relevant literature
◼ Locating the sources of information
◼ Extracting the relevant information from different sources
◼ Organizing and analyzing the data
◼ Drawing conclusions and
◼ Writing a SP report.
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3. Structure of Report
◼ Preliminary section
◼ Body of the report
◼ Back matter (Supplementary section)
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4. Preliminary section
◼ Title page of the SP Report
◼ Student Declaration
◼ Certificate from the Supervisor
◼ Acknowledgments
◼ Table of Contents List of Tables and Figures
◼ Executive Summary
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5. Body of the Report
◼ Chapter I
Introduction
◼ Chapter II
Data Presentation and Analysis
◼ Chapter III
Conclusion and Action Implications
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6. CHAPTER I : INTRODUCTION
◼ Context information
◼ Purpose of the study
◼ Significance of the study
◼ Literature survey
◼ Research methods used for data collection and
analysis
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7. CHAPTER II: DATA PRESENTATION
AND ANALYSIS
◼ Organization/situation/respondent profile
◼ Data presentation
◼ Data analysis
◼ Findings and discussion
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8. CHAPTER III: CONCLUSION AND
ACTION IMPLICATIONS
◼ Conclusion
◼ Action implications
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9. Supplementary section
◼ References
◼ Appendices
▪ Questionnaire
▪ Detail calculations
▪ Forms
▪ Maps
▪ Pictures etc.
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10. Number of copies to be submitted
◼ A student shall be required to submit three
spiral bound copies of the summer project
report in the recommended format.
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11. Length of the Report
◼ Approximately 35 to 40 pages
◼ (About 10,000 to 12,000 words)
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12. Paper and Typing
◼ A4 white bond paper
◼ Font – Times New Roman
◼ Standard letter size: Title – 14 and Text – 12
◼ Black Colour
◼ One side of the paper
◼ One and half line spacing
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13. Margin and Page Number
◼ Left and Top – 35 mm
◼ Right and Bottom – 20 mm
◼ All the pages in the initial part are in small roman
◼ Centrally located at the bottom of the pages.
◼ Each chapter should begin on a new page
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14. Alignment
◼ Title page : Centre
◼ Chapter heading : Centre
◼ Sub-heading : Left
◼ Body of text: Justify
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15. Citation and References
◼ American Psychological Association (APA)
◼ Except for text in the tables, all other text must
always be justified.
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16. Any Queries?
Thank you
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