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Cover Page
The cover page should include the following information:
- Project title,
- Student’s name,
- Supervisor’s name,
- Examiner’s name,
- Semester and academic year that the project was completed.
Report Summary
A student, in consultation with the supervisor, should write a summary of about 300 words on the nature and scope of the project. The summary should come after the cover page but before the full project report. It should contain a statement highlighting the contributions made by the student.
The statement should include, if any,
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- the student’s own ideas, own results, own proof, own interpretations, own examples or counterexamples, own computer programmes which he/she does not obtain from other sources. The relevant parts of the written thesis which contain such contributions should be explicitly stated.
- improvements made by the students on existing theorems, proofs, etc. found in books or papers. The sources from which the results are improved upon should be mentioned explicitly.
- the student’s own ideas, own results, own proof, own interpretations, own examples or counterexamples, own computer programmes which he/she does not obtain from other sources. The relevant parts of the written thesis which contain such contributions should be explicitly stated.
(includes some examples of the Statement of the author’s contributions)
Notes & Referencing in the Report
Principal original sources of the material for the project should be consulted as far as possible, in addition to accounts that may be found in textbooks or surveys. All sources that have been used should be explicitly noted in the report. The status of the results in the project, whether they are new and obtained by the student or whether they are obtained by others, should be stated.