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Unit 16: Academic Report Writing

Notes
Certificate from Project Guides
This is to certify that Mr/Ms ABC, a student of the Masters in Business Administration, has
worked under our guidance and supervision. This Project Report has the requisite standard
and to the best of our knowledge, not part of it has been reproduced from any other
project, monograph or book.

Institute Faculty Guide Organizational Guide

Designation Designation
Name of Institute Name of Organisation
Date
Abstract: Each summer project report must include an abstract of a maximum of two pages in
single space (about 800 -1000 words). It should state clearly and concisely the topic, scope,
method, and conclusions. The emphasis should be on the conclusions and recommendations.
The word limit should be strictly adhered to.
Acknowledgements: Students are advised to acknowledge help and support from faculty members,
library, computer centre, outside experts, their sponsoring organisations, and so on.
Table of contents: Every summer project report must contain a table of contents which provides
a view of the organisation of the report material.

List of figures, tables, appendices, and abbreviations: If the summer project report contains
tables, figures and abbreviations used, they should be listed immediately following the table of
contents on separate pages.
Chapter I: Introduction: As in the proposal, this should begin with a very brief summary of the
company and its business, and then the complete details of the managerial problem and the
background to the problem, its genesis, consequences of the problem on the business, and
current practices. It should start from a broad overview and then move to the specific focus of the
study. This should include the specific business or functional problem being faced by the
organisation.

Next, it should describe the rationale for the study and the benefits of the project in terms of
knowledge, skill, practices, and systems and how it will help the organisation. The next part is
to delimit the scope of the project, and to specify the area of enquiry under the project.
It should continue with a subsection titled “Problem Formulation”. This should describe the
specific business problem faced and the related issues involved in greater detail than above.

It should then end by reviewing the literature in this regard and the conclusions drawn from a
survey of literature, in a subsection titled “Literature Survey”. Students should do a comprehensive
library search on the project topic. This will help in knowing the work done in the past and also
the current work/research in the particular area. This will help frame the problem, in terms, of
variables under study and in focusing the research problem. Assumptions made in the study
must be clearly justified and the grounds or evidence used for the development of the hypotheses,
(i.e. the variable involved, their relationships, and so on), must be give in detail in this section.
Chapter II: Research Design: On the basis of the literature review and the discussions with the
guides, the final research problem will be described here. It will build a set of constructive
arguments for the research problem. It will further describe how the problem was operationalised
for measurement and analysis and will and with a statement of the operationalised hypotheses.

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