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Documentation Structure-Computer Science CUEA

This document outlines the structure and contents of a typical research project thesis. It includes preliminary sections like the abstract, table of contents, and definitions. The main body consists of 7 chapters that cover the introduction, literature review, methodology, system analysis, design, implementation, and conclusions. Each chapter includes subsections that provide details about the research background, problem statement, objectives, methodology, related work, current system analysis, proposed system design, testing, and findings. Additional appendices may include questionnaires, interviews, schedules, and sample code. Formatting guidelines are also provided.

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Documentation Structure-Computer Science CUEA

This document outlines the structure and contents of a typical research project thesis. It includes preliminary sections like the abstract, table of contents, and definitions. The main body consists of 7 chapters that cover the introduction, literature review, methodology, system analysis, design, implementation, and conclusions. Each chapter includes subsections that provide details about the research background, problem statement, objectives, methodology, related work, current system analysis, proposed system design, testing, and findings. Additional appendices may include questionnaires, interviews, schedules, and sample code. Formatting guidelines are also provided.

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Preliminary pages

❖ Blank page
❖ Cover page
❖ Declaration
❖ Acknowledgement
❖ Dedication
❖ Abstract
❖ Table of contents
❖ List of figures
❖ List of Tables
❖ Definition of key terms
Chapter 1: -Introduction
❖ Motivation & background
❖ Background of research
❖ Problem statement
❖ Aim of research
❖ Objectives of the research
❖ Justification of research
❖ Scope of research
❖ Research organization

Chapter 2: Research Methodology


❖ Chapter introduction
❖ Methodology for literature review
❖ Methodology for requirement specification, data collection and analysis
techniques e.g. Interviews, questionnaires.
❖ Methodology for system Analysis (current system); DFD, Context
diagram, flow charts, sequence diagram, collaboration diagrams, use
case, pseudocodes e.t.c
❖ Methodology for System Design (proposed system); Database design,
DFD, Context diagram, flow charts, sequence diagram, collaboration
diagrams, use case, pseudocodes e.t.c, Early System prototypes (I/O
design)
❖ Methodology for System implementation; back end, front end and
database technologies to be used
❖ Methodology for system testing; testing plan, testing techniques
❖ Methodology for System Deployment
❖ Chapter Summary
Chapter 3: Review of related work
❖ Chapter introduction
❖ History of the research topic
❖ Review of related prototypes, systems [from global to local]
❖ Emerging trends and patterns in the research area
❖ Research gap to be filled by your research
❖ Chapter summary
Chapter 4: System Analysis
❖ Chapter introduction
❖ Description of the current systems, its strengths and weakness
❖ Requirement analysis
❖ Feasibility study & its conclusion
❖ Requirement analysis (functional, nonfunctional, user,
usability e.t.c).
❖ Process logic design of the proposed system using the use case,
activity diagram, sequence and class diagrams, flow charts,
context diagrams, DFDS
❖ chapter summary
chapter 5-System Design of the proposed system
❖ introduction
❖ Description of the proposed systems, its strengths and
weakness
❖ Conceptual architecture of the proposed system
❖ Database Design: ER, Normalization and Data dictionary
❖ I/O of the proposed system
❖ Chapter summary
Chapter 6: - Implementation System & Testing
❖ Chapter introduction
❖ System screenshots (at most 4)
❖ Testing plan
❖ evaluation plan
❖ Chapter summary
Chapter 7 Conclusions, findings & recommendations
❖ Introduction
❖ Conclusion
❖ Challenges Encountered.
❖ Future recommendations
❖ Conclusion
References/Bibliography
Appendix: e.g. Sample questionnaires, sample interviews,
budget schedule, time schedule, sample code (at most 2
pages)

Additional information
❖ chapter one, two, three and references forms the research
proposal
❖ all paragraphs should be justified, 1.5 spaced and done in times
new roman
❖ all figures should be labelled and cited
❖ all tables should be well labelled
❖ each idea should be on specific paragraphs
❖ motivation and background should be one and half page at
least
❖ problem statement should be written in continuous Prowse
❖ objectives should be numbered
❖ research justification should be anchored on existing
researches and not assumptions
❖ research scope should specify target organization and

features to be implemented
❖ Use the APA referencing style
❖ Print & bind three copies of the documentation using dark
blue as the color cover as shown in the following sample

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