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Dissertation HCS 401

The document outlines guidelines for level 4.2 dissertation documents, including required sections like introduction, planning, analysis, design, and implementation chapters. It specifies formatting rules like consistent heading styles, pagination, references, and appendices. Diagrams and figures must be numbered based on their chapter.

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Dissertation HCS 401

The document outlines guidelines for level 4.2 dissertation documents, including required sections like introduction, planning, analysis, design, and implementation chapters. It specifies formatting rules like consistent heading styles, pagination, references, and appendices. Diagrams and figures must be numbered based on their chapter.

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2011 Dissertation Guidelines HCS 401 LEVEL 4.

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All level 4.2s Dissertation Documents must follow the format below: Cover Page Acknowledgements Dedication Table of contents List of Acronyms List of tables List of figures List of Appendices
NB. Each of the topics above must have a different page and must be paginated using Roman Numerals except for the COVER PAGE

Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Introduction (introduce your topic) 1.2 Background 1.2.1 Background of Organisation 1.2.2 Organisational Structure 1.2.3 Vision 1.2.4 Mission Statement) 1.3 Problem definition 1.4 Aim 1.5 Objectives (* Note that objectives must be S.M.A.R.T) 1.6 Hypothesis 1.7 Justification 1.8 Conclusion

Chapter 2: Planning phase


2.1 Introduction 2.2 Why build the system 2.3 Identify business value 2.4 Analyze feasibility 2.4.1Technical 2.4.2 Economic 2.4.3 Social 2.4.4 Operational Feasibility 2.5 Develop work plan 2.6 Conclusion

2011 Dissertation Guidelines HCS 401 LEVEL 4.2s

Chapter 3: Analysis phase


3.1 Introduction 3.2 Information gathering methodologies 3.3 Analysis of existing system - Description of current system 3.4 Process analysis - Activity Diagram of current system 3.5 Data Analysis - Context Diagram and DFD 3.6 Weaknesses of current system 3.7 Evaluate Alternatives (Refer to Feasibility Analysis) 3.7.1 Outsource (outline reasons why not) 3.7.2 Improvement (outline reasons why not) 3.7.3 Development (Why, justify in terms of costs from others) 3.8 Requirements Analysis 3.8.1 Functional Requirements (Use Case diagram) 3.8.2 Non-functional requirements (outline constraints) 3.9 Conclusion

Chapter 4: Design phase


4.1 Introduction 4.2 System Design (How will the system work?) 4.2.1 Context Diagram and DFD of the proposed System 4.3 Architectural design**** 4.4 Physical design **** - How software and hardware interact 4.5 Database design (ER or Tables and EER diagram) 4.6 Program design (Package and class, collaboration or sequence diagram) 4.7 Interface design 4.8 Conclusion

Chapter 5: Implementation phase


5.1 Introduction 5.2 Coding (Pseudo Code) 5.3 Testing 5.4 Installation 5.5 Maintenance 5.6 Conclusion

Bibliography (Harvard Referencing Style and arrange in alphabetic order)

2011 Dissertation Guidelines HCS 401 LEVEL 4.2s Eg Surname, Initial. (Year of publication), Title of Book or Journal, publishing hall, country of publication Note that if you are referencing a site you need to state exactly the document accessed and the date you accessed the document Eg http://www.tkn.tu-berlin/research/QoS.html Accessed 20/01/2011.

Wikipedia is not an academic website so dont include information from that site, educational sites have an extension .edu, ac , etc eg http://nile.wpi.edu

Appendices
Appendix A : User manual Evidence of research Appendix B : interview checklist Appendix C : Questionnaire checklist Appendix D : observation score sheet Appendix E : etc. Appendix F : Snippet of Code

Final Stage
Documentation Binding Oral presentation (30%)

**************************VERY IMPORTANT*************************** There are two ways that you can use to present your minor headings 1) Bold ONLY 2) Underline ONLY A graduate is supposed to choose ONE way of presenting minor heading. The style must be consistent throughout the documentation. Each Major heading MUST start on a fresh page and must be BOLD Each and every table, diagram, graph, chart etc MUST be numbered. The numbering must depend with the Chapter in which the item is in Eg diagram in Chapter 1 can be numbered as Figure 1.1: Organogram. Note that the First 1 denotes the chapter in which the diagram falls under and the Last 1 tells us about the position of the diagram in the chapter, so literally Figure 1.1 means the figure is in Chapter 1 and its diagram number 1. This means that the next diagram must have a .2 suffix, thus Figure 1.2. Note that minor headings are those headings that are not bold and the major headings are in bold from the guidelines above. Each and every topic, subtopic must be numbered.

2011 Dissertation Guidelines HCS 401 LEVEL 4.2s MAIN Headings should be of font size 14 and MINOR headings of font size 12. E.g Chapter 4 : Design Phase (14) Introduction (12)

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