Project Form Template
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Use this form to make notes to complete your project. You must answer all sections in the boxes below to complete your work. Remember to include references in your text also.
1. Introduction
A brief description of the topic you have chosen
Your focus of interest in that topic
The main sections that this project will cover
Your thesis statement
Incl. position and pattern of organisation
2. Main body
In the main body you need to include the following subheadings. Under each sub heading you are expected to write 3 paragraphs.
2. Main body
2.1 Overview – this sections enables the reader to understand your topic more clearly, giving it context
Background information and wider implications, incl. real life examples, historical data
2.2 Main ideas
Summarise research materials and how they pertain to the subject matter
Analyse data and visual representations you have chosen to illustrate your ideas, with examples.
Understand and remember that your research questions are to help you focus your research, to give your research a clear shape and direction – in this context, your research questions become subtopics of your project focus.
Answer your research questions (this relates to your thesis in the introduction)
Remember to include references to show where you found the information
Research subtopic 1: question becomes a subtopic
Research subtopic 2: question becomes a subtopic
Research subtopic 3: question becomes a subtopic
***OPTIONAL*** Research subtopic 4:
***OPTIONAL*** Research subtopic 5:
This is the arguably the most important section – Go into more detail about the subject matter.
2.3 Closing Points – Evaluation & Analysis of key information
This is the evaluative section. Extract wider meaning from results.
Suggest ideas about the future including possible solutions to highlighted problems
3. Conclusion
Summarise the main points in the project. Reach conclusions about the specific focus of interest and its wider implications. Conclude by suggesting ways in which these implications can be tackled if and/or where necessary.
3. Conclusion
Summarise the main points from your project
3. Reference List (separate page)
Make a list of references you have used for this project in alphabetical order (A-Z) using the APA referencing system (see university website or Blackboard).
Minimum 5 references, no maximum.
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Appendices **OPTIONAL**(separate page)
If you have used any charts, questionnaires, maps or tables etc. that have helped your research, include them at the end.
Include references for these also.
Appendix A:
Reference:
Appendix B:
Reference:
Appendix C:
Reference: