How to Write a Good Project Fall 2009

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HOW TOHOW TO WRITE WRITE

A GOODA GOOD

PROJECTPROJECT



STEPSSTEPSSelect a suitable topicWrite the proposal

Collect data

Organize materialWrite the report



layout specificationslayout specifications

Font: Times New RomanFont size: 12

Single sided pages1.5 spacing

Page numbers ± after theContents page

Margin: 1´ to 1.25´



Languages Centre

TITLETITLE

Submitted by:

Name: _________________ ID No: _______Name: _________________ ID No: _______

Name: _________________ ID No: _______

Class: ____ Tutor: __________ Date: _____



ACKNOWLEDGMENTACKNOWLEDGMENT

Optional

After Title page



CONTENTSCONTENTS

Introduction 3Chapter 1 « 5

Chapter 2 « 8Chapter 3 « 11Conclusion 15Bibliography 17Appendix



INTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTION

Introduce topic

Background informationThesis statement

Difficulties faced



thesis statementthesis statement

Single complete sentence

Two parts: topic andassertion

Narrow rather than broad

Summarizes your point of view



W hich one is the W hich one is the

thesis statement ?thesis statement ?

1. The number of car

accidents has increased.2. The number of car

accidents has increaseddue to speeding and

disregard of traffic rules.



W hich one is the W hich one is the

thesis statement ?thesis statement ?1. The tea industry hasmany problems.2. The primary problem of the tea industry is the lack

of funds to replaceoutdated machinery.



CONCLUSION and CONCLUSION and

RECOMMENDATIONSRECOMMENDATIONS

Sum up main points

Rephrase Thesis StatementWhat you will do differently

next timeSuggestions, if any



BIBLIOGRAPHY BIBLIOGRAPHY

Alphabetical order

Harvard style



appendixappendix

Supplementary back matter

OptionalEach Appendix on separate

page (Appendix I,Appendix II, Appendix III)



APPENDIXAPPENDIX

Can include:

MapsMaps



Graphs & ChartsGraphs & Charts



PhotographsPhotographs



DiagramsDiagrams



QuestionnaireQuestionnaireQuestionnaire

1You did not «««««. because

A. you were not interested

B. you were ill

C. you had transport problems D. you had family problems

2. The objectives of ««««««..

A. Strongly agree

B. Agree

C. Disagree

D. Strongly disagree

3. The materials«««««««««

A. Excellent

B. Good

C. Poor

D. Very poor

Questionnaire1You did not «««««. because

A. you were not interested

B. you were ill

C. you had transport problems

D. you had family problems

2. The objectives of ««««««..

A. Strongly agree

B. Agree

C. Disagree

D. Strongly disagree

3. The materials«««««««««

A. Excellent

B. Good

C. Poor

D. Very poor

QuestionnaireMale Female

Please Circle the most appropriate

answer.

1. You feel very «««««.

Always Sometimes Usually Never

2. You cannot «««««


3. You need ««««..


4. Your «««««.




Tapescript of interviewTapescript of interviewQ: Did you always want to be a

designer?A: Yes, it was my childhood dream.

Q: What are you working on at themoment?

A: The new fall/winter collection.

Q: Where do you get your inspiration?

A: From many sources«..



BORROW WITHOUTBORROW WITHOUT

PLAGIARIZINGPLAGIARIZING

ParaphraseSummarize

Quote



PARAPHRASEPARAPHRASE

In your own words

Same meaning as theoriginal

Similar in lengthCitation



summary summary ShortMain ideas only

In your own words

Not your own ideas or opinion

Citation



QUOTATIONQUOTATION

Exactly as in the

original sourceUse quotation

marksCitation



It is estimated that no fewer than five hundred

attempts have been made to create artificiallanguages for international use. The mostsuccessful by far has been Esperanto, alanguage constructed around the end of thenineteenth century by Dr. Zamenhof of Poland. Esperanto is a language that isextremely easy to learn and speak, with its

words drawn mainly from English, German,the Romance languages, Latin and Greek.(Purcell, 2001)



PARAPHRASEPARAPHRASE

Approximately five hundred artificiallanguages have been created for internationalcommunication. Esperanto, a language

invented around the end of the nineteenthcentury in Poland by a man named Dr.Zamenhof, has been the most successful.

Esperanto is very easy to learn and speak. Itsvocabulary comes mainly from English,German, the Romance languages, Latin andGreek. (Purcell, 2001)



SUMMARY 1SUMMARY 1

According to Purcell, roughly fivehundred attempts have been made

to create artificial languages.Esperanto, the most successful,was devised by Dr. Zamenhof of

Poland; which is very easy to learnand speak. (Purcell, 2001)



SUMMARY 2SUMMARY 2

Of the many artificial languagesthat have been developed,Esperanto, invented about 1900,has been the most successful.Easy to learn and speak, its

vocabulary comes mainly fromWestern European languages,Latin, and Greek. (Purcell, 2001)



QUOTATIONQUOTATION

Purcell states that ³nofewer than five hundred

attempts have been madeto create artificial

languages for internationaluse.´ (Purcell, 2001)



Unfortunately, different countries have differentideas about exactly how close is close. It is easy

enough to test your own µspace reaction¶: when youare talking to someone in the street or in any openspace, reach out with your arm and see where thenearest point on his body comes. If you hail from

Western Europe, you will find that he is at roughlyfingertip distance from you. In other words, as youreach out, your fingertips will just about makecontact with his shoulder. If you come from Eastern

Europe, you will find that you are standing at µwristdistance¶. If you come from the Mediterraneanregion, you will find that you are much closer to your companion, at little more than µelbow distance¶.

(Morris, 1977)



PARAPHRASE (1)PARAPHRASE (1)

Regrettably, different nations think differently aboutexactly how close is close. Test yourself: when youare talking to someone in the street or in any open

space, stretch out your arm to measure how closethat person is to you. If you are from WesternEurope, you will find that your fingertips will justabout make contact with the person¶s shoulder. If

you are from Eastern Europe, your wrist will reachthe person¶s shoulder. If you are from theMediterranean region, you will find that you aremuch closer to your companion, when your elbow

will reach that person¶s shoulder. (Morris, 1977)



ParaphraseParaphrase (2)(2)

According to Morris, people from different nationsthink that µclose¶ means different things. You aneasily see what your reaction is to how close to youpeople stand by reaching out the length of your arm

to measure how close someone is as the two of youtalk. When people from Western Europe stand onthe street and talk together, the space betweenthem is the distance it would take one person¶sfingertips to reach to the other person¶s shoulder.People from Eastern Europe converse at a wrist-to-shoulder distance. People from the Mediterranean,however, prefer an elbow-to-shoulder distance.(Morris, 1977)



SUMMARY (1)SUMMARY (1)

Expected amounts of spacebetween people when they are

talking differ among cultures; ingeneral, Western Europeans prefer fingertip-to-shoulder distance,

Eastern Europeans wrist-to-shoulder, and Mediterraneanselbow-to-shoulder. (Morris, 1997)



SUMMARY (2)SUMMARY (2)

Different countries have differentideas about exactly how close is

close. Western Europeans prefer tobe at arm¶s length from the personthey are talking to while East

Europeans prefer wrist distanceand Mediterraneans like elbowdistance. (Morris, 1977)



GRAMMAR AND STYLEGRAMMAR AND STYLE

Use formal language

Avoid using electronicdictionary



REVISIONREVISION

Print a hard copy

Edit Proofread

Print final version



STATEMENT OF ORIGINALITY STATEMENT OF ORIGINALITY I hereby confirm the following about my research

project entitled ««««««««..« the research and writing in this paper are entirely

my own;

if I have used the words of others I have usedquotation marks appropriately;

I have cited the sources I used appropriately.

Name:

ID:

Class:

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