project work

Project Title

Author Name

Submission Date

A project report submitted in partial fulfilment for the degree of

Master of Science in XXXX

School of Physical Sciences and Computing University of Central Lancashire

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Abstract Your are aiming for no more than 50 pages of report content, this count starts at Chapter 1 and does not includes your references or appendices.

The abstract is the summary of the project report within one page (aim for about 500 words). Unnumbered chapter headings, as above, are entered using the ‘Heading (Unnumbered)’ style, which automatically starts a new page.

This template starts the page numbering at the foot of this page. That is, the first page does not have a number.

It is suggested that the abstract be structured as follows:

Problem: What you tackled, and why this needed a solution

Objectives: What you set out to achieve, and how this addressed the problem

Methodology: How you went about solving the problem

Achievements: What you managed to achieve, and how far it meets your objectives.

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Attestation I understand the nature of plagiarism, and I am aware of the University’s policy on this. I certify that this document reports original work by me during my University project.

Signature Date

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Acknowledgements Acknowledge anyone who has helped you in your work such as your supervisor, technical support staff, fellow students or external organisations. Acknowledge the source of any work that is not your own.

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Table of Contents

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List of Figures

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List of Tables

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Introduction

1.1 Background and Context Give the background to your project and context of what you have done. Sections are entered using the ‘Heading 2’ paragraph style.

1.2 Scope and Objectives Define the scope and objectives of your project.

1.3 Achievements Summarise what you have achieved.

1.4 Overview of Report Briefly overview the contents of what follows in the report. Overview (1-2 lines per chapter):

'Chapter 3 describes the investigation of the problem and presents the top-level analysis as a Yourdon dataflow diagram. ... Chapter 4 contains an overview of the design architecture and examines the key design issues’.

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Literature Review Each of your chapters should have an introduction to tell your readers what they will find in the chapter.

Summarise current knowledge and what others have done in the various topics of your dissertation – in the application area and in the various technologies that you might have used or did use. Write for someone familiar with computing, but not necessarily expert in the particular topics of your project. Give references to other work by using cross-references to entries in the References section, like this (Turner & Jennings, 2002)

• What has been done in this area before

• Similar work already done

• Used to inform design

• Used to support the need for your application

• Need to be from quality sources not just a web based search from Google (normally hint that it is a poor project)

• Plagiarism needs to be avoided

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Project Planning 3.1 Methodology/development lifecyle

3.2 Requirements

3.3 Potential Solutions

3.4 Tools and Techniques

3.5 Legal and Ethical Issues

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Design 4.1 System Design

• Based on literature, HCI theory etc..

• Screen shots – justified

• Storyboards

• UML or Class Diagrams

• Database

• Structure of application

• Any evaluation of these should be evidenced

4.2 User Interface Design Text goes here.

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Implementation 5.1 Description of the technical implementation with Code

snippets

5.2 Key challenges – problems over come

5.3 Any changes to requirements

5.4 How created

5.5 Software used

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Testing and Evaluation If you developed a piece of software give details of how the software was testing e.g. to ensure it is free from bugs

6.1 Discuss evaluation methods How did you evaluate whether your project was a success, provide examples of different approaches you could use and give details of the evaluation techniques you used.

6.2 Justify your selection

6.3 Results

6.4 Discussion

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Overall Evaluation, Conclusions and Future Work 7.1 Project Objectives Summarise what you have achieved.

7.2 Self-Evaluation This section is about yourself. Be honest. Look at where you were situated at the beginning of the project and where you are now. What have you learnt on a personal level, what have you found out about yourself? Try to reflect upon individual goals, experiences, and incidents. No one is perfect, and it is very likely that you will recall both good and bad experiences.

The purpose of the evaluation process is to highlight strengths, correct performance weaknesses, and develop unused skills and abilities. In order to do this, you must be willing to recognise areas that need improvement or development.

7.3 Project Evaluation Stand back and evaluate what you have achieved and how well you have met the objectives. Evaluate your achievements against your objectives in section 1.2. Demonstrate that you have tackled the project in a professional manner.

(The previous paragraph demonstrates the use of automatic cross-references: The ‘1.2’ is a Cross-reference to the text in a numbered item of the document, it is not literal text but a field. The number that appears here will change automatically if the number on the referred-to section is altered, for example if a chapter or section is added or deleted before it. Cross-references are entered using Word's Insert or References menu. Cross-references are set to update automatically when printed, but may not do so on-screen beforehand; you can update a field manually on-screen by right-clicking on it and selecting Update field from the pop-up menu or by selecting the whole document and pressing F9.)

7.4 Applicability of Findings to the Commercial World Summarise what you have achieved.

7.5 Conclusions Summarise what you have achieved.

7.6 Future Work Explain any limitations in your results and how things might be improved. Discuss how your work might be developed further. Reflect on your results in isolation and in relation to what others have achieved in the same field. This self-analysis is particularly important. You should give a critical evaluation of what went well, and what might be improved.

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References