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Structure For Dissertation

The document outlines the structure and formatting requirements for a dissertation submission. It states that the dissertation must include a title page, table of contents, abstract, introduction chapter, body chapters, conclusion chapter, and references section. The body chapters will vary depending on the topic but must include a literature review, discussion, and conclusions. The dissertation must be double-spaced, Times New Roman font, with references and citations in APA style. Students are responsible for original work and must submit a plagiarism report showing less than 15% unoriginal content.

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Structure For Dissertation

The document outlines the structure and formatting requirements for a dissertation submission. It states that the dissertation must include a title page, table of contents, abstract, introduction chapter, body chapters, conclusion chapter, and references section. The body chapters will vary depending on the topic but must include a literature review, discussion, and conclusions. The dissertation must be double-spaced, Times New Roman font, with references and citations in APA style. Students are responsible for original work and must submit a plagiarism report showing less than 15% unoriginal content.

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STRUCTURE FOR DISSERTATION

All students must follow the following rules in submitting their dissertation.
 Front page should provide title, author, Name of Program, Name of Supervisor, and the year
of submission.
 Next is the ‘acknowledgements’.
 Next page should be the table of contents giving page references for each chapter and section.
 The next page should be the table of appendices, graphs and tables giving titles and page
references.
 Next to follow should be a synopsis or abstract of the dissertation (approximately 500 words)
titled: Executive Summary
 Chapter I should be a general introduction, giving the background to the dissertation, the
objectives of the dissertation, the rationale for the dissertation, the plan, methodological issues
and problems. The limitations of the dissertation should also be hinted in this chapter.
 Other chapters will constitute the body of the dissertation. The number of chapters and their
sequence will usually vary depending on, among others, on a critical review of the previous
relevant work relating to your major findings, a discussion of their implications, and
conclusions, possibly with a suggestion of the direction of future research on the area.
 After this concluding chapter, you should give a list of all the references you have used. These
should be cross - references with your text. For articles from journals, the following details
are required e.g.
 Draper P and Pandyal K. 1991, The Investment Trust Discount Revisited, Journal of
Business Finance and Accounting, Vol18, No6, Nov, pp 791-832.

For books, the following details are required:


 Levi, M. 1996, International Financial Management, Prentice Hall, New York, 3rd
Ed, 1996

 Finally, you should give any appendices. These should only include relevant statistical data
or material that cannot be fitted into the above categories.

 Abstract should be of approximately 200 word. It should summarize the contents and
convince the reviewers that the topic is important, relevant, and innovative.
 Body will be of approximately 10000- 12000 words. It should be divided into sub section
and each section should be coherent: i.e., have a clear beginning and end and a logical
connection between the content elements is must.
 Conclude by summarizing the results of your argument and their significance for the
relevant issues. 
 References section should list down all the citations in APA Style.

ARRANGEMENT OF CONTENTS
Every Dissertation has three parts: the preliminary pages, the text, and the reference material.
Each part has several sections, which are normally arranged in the order they are discussed
below.

Components: The Dissertation Report should appear in the following order:

 Page i : Cover Page


 Page ii : Second Title Page
 Page iii : Certificate of Approval
 Page iv : Approval of Industry Guide
 Page v-vi : Abstract (maximum two pages)
 Page vii : Acknowledgement
 Page viii : Table of Contents
 Page ix : List of Figures
 Page x : List of Tables
 Page xi : List of Appendices
 Page xii : Abbreviations
 Page 1 : Chapter I Onwards
 Page ... : References
 Page ... : Appendices

Formatting

 All reports should be printed double-spaced, Times New Roman and 12 Font size.
 Although papers are evaluated chiefly on their philosophical merits, grammar, spelling,
and language will also be evaluated. You are expected to express your thoughts in clear,
grammatical, English sentences.
 Content is the purpose of a paper; style and packaging can facilitate comprehension of
that content, but should never distract the reader from the content.

Disciplines, Ethical issues and Plagiarism

The NTTC report must be written in students own words. However, if required to cite the words
of others, all the debts (for words, data, arguments and ideas) have to be appropriately
acknowledged. It is mandatory that each project report shall be checked for plagiarism through
Turnitin or similar software before submission. The content which is based on existing published
work must come from properly quoted material and from the references cited section. After
checking the accuracy of the citations and references of such content the plagiarism report should
not return similarity index of more than 15% in any circumstance. However, if the matching text
is one continuous block, the index of 15% could still be considered plagiarism. Any report with
higher than this percentage matching must be explained by the student. The details of copy
rights, professional ethics are given in Plagiarism Prevention Policy of the University.
Submission of final report

The most important aspect of the courses is the final report. Therefore following must be ensured
for producing quality report.
a) The student will start the project report / dissertation while doing his/her NTCC course as
per the prescribed guidelines
b) The students will submit 1st draft of the report to the guide for guidance.
c) Followed by the submission second of draft of report after making necessary changes as
suggested by the guide.
d) The final report shall be submitted after checking plagiarism through Turnitin or any
other format subscribed by University. Copying material should not be more than 10% provided
source is mentioned in the report along with proper acknowledgement and referencing as per
plagiarism policy of the university.

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