Project Report Your report is the written record of your entire project from start to finish. When read by a person unfamiliar with your project, the report should be clear and detailed enough for the reader to know exactly what you did, why you did it, what the results were, whether or not the experimental evidence supported your hypothesis, and where you got your research information. This written document is your spokesperson when you are not present to explain your project, but more than that, it documents all your work. Generally, a project report should be typewritten, double-spaced, and bound in a folder or notebook. It should contain a title page, a table of contents, an abstract, an introduction, methods and data, a conclusion, a list of sources, and acknowledgements. Title Page Table of Contents Abstract Introduction Methods and Procedures Data Conclusion Sources Acknowledgements Title Page The content of the title page varies. The title should be attention-getting. It should capture the theme of the project but should not be the same as the problem question. Here is a good example, “Collectivism vs. Individualism — on Chinese and western heroic movies” Table of Contents The second page of your report is the table of contents. It should contain a list of everything in the report that follows the contents page, as shown in the following figure. Abstract The abstract is a brief overview of the project. It should not be more than one page and should include the project title, a statement of the purpose, a hypothesis, a brief description of the methods and procedures, and the results. There is no one way to write an abstract, but it Table of Contents 1. Abstract 2. Introduct...
