FINAL YEAR PROJECT

REPORT FORMAT
 Title Page
 Provide the title of the project, the project
supervisors’ names, the members name
and the date. Be sure to give your report a
clear, specific title. (No page number)
 Acknowledgement
 Give credits and appreciations to people who
have assist or help you in the process of the
project.
 Abstract
 Concisely summarize your report in 100 words or
less. State the project your report deals with and
briefly explain the important points or findings in the
report.

 Include the report’s main conclusions and

recommendations, if you make any.

 Give the report’s title, author, date, and place. Write

this after you have written the whole report since it is
a summary of the report.
 Table of Contents
 Show the contents and arrangement of your
report. Emphasize the structure of the report
and include all heading and subheadings, a
list of appendices, and other parts of the
report.

 Also provide a list of figures and a list of

tables. (Single space. Page number: ii)
 Introduction
 Explain the background information. The
introduction should enable readers to read
the discussion intelligently.

 Use information from your proposal here.

You might provide a review of literature
here.
 Discussion/ Collected Data
 There are many ways to organize this information. In this
section, report on the findings of your study.

 Show what you did, your methods. Emphasize your

results and explain what they mean.

 Organize this information my using major headings and

subheadings. Present tables and figures and interpret
them.

 Show what your data and results mean through analysis.

Focus on results rather than methods.
 Conclusion
 State your conclusions and emphasize main
points by drawing together the analyses
stated in the body of the report.

 Comprehensively interpret your report. Add

no new data here. Make sure your conclusions
are valid and that you support them logically. 
 Recommendations
 If the discussion and conclusions suggest that
specific action needs to be taken, you should
state your recommendations here.

 Make your recommendations specific; state

exactly what should be done. Use a proper
tone. 
 References
 List all works cited in-text. Use correct
bibliographic form.

 [2] Doebelin, E., Control System Principles and

Design, John Wiley, New York, 1985.

 Miller, D., l Prolog: An Introduction to the

Language and Its Logic,
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/dale/1Prolog/ind
ex.html, accessed on 4 July 2008.
 Appendices
 Provide Gantt chart, charts, tables, text results,
and other supporting data. If you use more
than one appendix, letter each A, B, C. . . .
Number the pages A1, A2 . . . .
Gantt Chart