You are advised to fill the form below for the details of the Term Paper.
Form for the Detail
NO PLAGIARISM please.
Any report found to have been plagiarised, shall be awarded ZERO and no second chance shall be given.
The above deadlines are the last dates. They can be submitted before the above dates. The value in the bracket indicates that you would loose that many marks, if you do not meet the deadline. These dates are flexible and the supervisor can advance or delay them, as long as the final presentation is completed by 25th Nov, 2014. Contact your supervisor for exact dates.
Form for the Detail
TERM PAPER
3rd and 5th term students, Civil Engineering
The third and fifth term students have a course called as "term paper". I am elaborating the procedure for the submission of term paper,
- Select a broad subject area of your interest from the courses that are available to you in the current term
- Select of Supervisor from the faculty teaching in your section
- Submit the topic and the supervisor name to the section co-ordinator. If this is not done within the specified time, on or before the last date, a penalty of -10 marks shall be imposed.
- You shall be given three weeks time to source material on the selected topic, understand the topic and submit a synopsis. If the synopsis is not submitted, you loose another 10 marks.
- Get the same approved by your supervisor and get his signature on the synopsis. Keep a copy with you and submit another copy to the supervisor
- You will get another two weeks to submit the rough draft of the report. If you fail to submit the draft report, you loose another 20 marks
- The report shall be evaluated by your supervisor and shall be returned back with the comments, within next two weeks (maximum.
- You are supposed to submit the final draft of the report within a week's time of getting back the evaluated report. If this is not submitted, you loose 20 more marks.
- Prepare a presentation on your topic and present the same to the panel of examiners (supervisor and another faculty member. The date shall be informed to you by the supervisor. If the presentation is not done on the date specified date, you stand to loose another 10 marks.
- Note: One faculty teaching in your section shall be taking a maximum of 10-12 students under him, not more.
Format of a Term Paper Report:
Basic Requirements for the Report:
- Number of Pages: In general between 5-10.
- At least 1 self made (using excel or any other software) graph and 1 additional graph.
- You are asked to read at least one research paper very critically.
Format of the report:
1. Title
2. Introduction (General statements of the topics, focused statements of the problem and the objective of the report)
3. Methods that are adopted (here you may include how you intend to meet your objective)
4. Results and Discussion (here you may include graphs, your findings and discussions of them)
5. Conclusions and Recommendation (here you briefly summarize your findings and based on that you make recommendations)
6. References (the way you find it in any one of the paper you have critically read.)
NO PLAGIARISM please.
Any report found to have been plagiarised, shall be awarded ZERO and no second chance shall be given.
Deadlines:
Topic finalization and initial works (-10): 26th August, 2016
Draft Report Preparation and Progress (-10): 16th September, 2016
Draft Report Submission (-20): 7th October, 2016
Final Report Submission (-20): 12th Nov, 2016
Presentation (-10): between 15-25th Nov, 2016
The above deadlines are the last dates. They can be submitted before the above dates. The value in the bracket indicates that you would loose that many marks, if you do not meet the deadline. These dates are flexible and the supervisor can advance or delay them, as long as the final presentation is completed by 25th Nov, 2014. Contact your supervisor for exact dates.
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