10 Report Writing

10 Report Writing

Presumably, you think that writing the report of your final year project is the last step that you should do. Although this assumption is partially correct, however, it should not lead you to postpone the report writing activity to the last minute of your schedule. In fact, you have to start to write your report from the early stages of your project. If you have a look at Figure 3-2 again, you can find out that the report- writing task has been considered as an ongoing task after literature review finished. This means that your report is gradually completed alongside other activities that you would perform during the development process. Clearly, as you can move towards the end of your project, the time and effort that you dedicate to this task would increase.

Most of the schools/departments provide you with a template based on which you would prepare your final report. These templates may differ in detail or even the topics that they expect. However, there are commonalities among majority of them. Below I will suggest a general structure based on which I will explain the expected contents of each section.

10.1 Report Structure

You can find a template for the report structure below. However, depending on your specific project you may revise it.

Report Structure

- Cover Page

- Executive Summary/Abstract

- Acknowledgement

- Table of Contents

- List of Figures

- List of Tables

- Introduction

- Literature Review

- Methodology

- Solutions

- Requirement Management

- Analysis

- Design

- User Interface Design

- Database Design

- Software Design

- Implementation

- Testing

- Conclusion and Future works

- Bibliography/References

- Appendices