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Standard Internship Format (Updated)

The document provides guidelines for writing an internship report, including its standard format and required contents. An internship report summarizes a student's internship experience and lessons learned. It includes details about the student's position and tasks completed, and informs educators about the skills developed. The report follows specific formatting guidelines, such as a 14-point Times New Roman font and 1.5 line spacing. It contains elements like an executive summary, introduction, organization overview, personal learning reflection, analyses using tools like SWOT and recommendations. The report aims to reflect on the overall internship, improve writing skills, and contribute to existing knowledge.

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Standard Internship Format (Updated)

The document provides guidelines for writing an internship report, including its standard format and required contents. An internship report summarizes a student's internship experience and lessons learned. It includes details about the student's position and tasks completed, and informs educators about the skills developed. The report follows specific formatting guidelines, such as a 14-point Times New Roman font and 1.5 line spacing. It contains elements like an executive summary, introduction, organization overview, personal learning reflection, analyses using tools like SWOT and recommendations. The report aims to reflect on the overall internship, improve writing skills, and contribute to existing knowledge.

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Department of Political Science

Standard Format of The Internship Report

An internship report is a summary of your internship experience that many employers require to complete your
time at their organization. The internship report is important because it informs your educator of the lessons and
skills you learned and the opportunities you had to apply those skills.
Your internship report includes relevant details about your intern experience, such as a description of your
position with the organization, the tasks you completed and the skills you learned. Your director may use this
report to improve internship opportunities or lessons for incoming students.
• Reflects your ‘overall’ experience of the internship duration
• Helps polish your writing skills
• Increases your understanding of report writing
• Enriches your vocabulary and helps reduce grammar and spelling errors
• Contributes to the existing knowledge base

FONT STYLE/SIZE/SPACING
• Font: Times New Roman
• Size: 14 points bold for main headings
13 points bold for sub-headings
12 points for all other text
• Spacing: 1.5 Line Spacing
• Pages 20-30 pages

CONTENTS OF THE REPORT


• Title Page (Specimen Provided)
• Page for supervisory committee (Specimen Provided)
• Scanned copy of the internship certificate (provided by the organization)
• Table of contents
• Acknowledgement Page
• Executive Summary
o Chapter 1 Introduction of the Report
o Chapter 2 Overview of the Organization
o Chapter 3 What I have Learned
o Chapter 4 Analyses
o Chapter 5 Recommendations and Conclusion
• References (Write in APA format, all the sources consulted in the making of your report)
• Appendices (Financial Statements, Supporting Documents etc.)

Dr Zermina Tasleem, Lecturer, BZU, Multan


Acknowledgement
This report has been prepared for the internship that has been done in the (Name of Organization) to study the
practical aspect of the course and implementation of the theory in the field with the purpose of fulfilling the
requirements of the course of (Name of Program)
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to (Supervisor at Department, Manager/Director/HOD of the
Organization worked in, other employees, staff members etc.) for their support and encouragement.
Executive Summary
• An executive summary is a brief section at the beginning of a long report, that summarizes the
document. As a 30-second or a one-minute version of the entire report
• Briefly, what is this about?
• Why is it important? [or] Why was it undertaken?
• What are the major findings or results?
An executive summary outlines the following information:
• The purpose
• The methods
• The results
• The conclusions & recommendations

Dr Zermina Tasleem, Lecturer, BZU, Multan


CHAPTERS
• Chapter 1: Introduction of the Report
This chapter includes basic information regarding the process of preparation of report. This chapter should not
be more than 4 pages with the following topics:
o Background: Basic information (without unnecessary details and descriptions) regarding topic
of study
o Purpose: Purpose may be to study an organization from Marketing/HR/Finance/Accounting
perspective, to understand the working/operations, to analyze the organization using SWOT,
PESTEL, Ratio, Common-size, Index, Trend analysis techniques, whichever is applicable.
o Data Collection: (Primary/Secondary)
o Scope: As it is impossible to cover all the departments of organization in 8 weeks’ time,
therefore the internee should mention the major focus of his/her work or the specific department
attended.

• Chapter 2: Overview of the Organization


This chapter should not be more than 5 pages, and covers the most relevant information about the Main
organization, with special focus on the branch/office of work
o Brief overview
o Major activities, products, hierarchy, organogram

• Chapter 3: What I have Learned


This is an important part of your report. Your activities during the period of internship. Your job responsibility,
in how many departments you were placed, what have you learned in those departments etc.
o Duration of internship
o Departments assigned
o List of activities performed and How have your performed
o Conclude by compiling your overall experience

• Chapter 4: Analyses
o Financial Analyses (Ratio, Index, Common size, Trend)
o SWOT analysis
▪ List the firm’s key external opportunities
▪ List the firm’s key external threats.
▪ List the firm’s key internal strengths.
▪ List the firm’s key internal weaknesses.
▪ Match strengths with opportunities and develop SO Strategies.
▪ Match weaknesses with opportunities and develop WO Strategies.
▪ Match strengths with threats and develop ST Strategies.
▪ Match weaknesses with threats and develop WT Strategies

• Chapter 5: Recommendations and Conclusions


o Based on Strategies developed in SWOT
o Should not be Vague, Abstract, Idealistic
o Should be Specific, Concrete, Practical
Internee should concentrate and focus on the quality of recommendations. They should not be unclear,
ambitious and general. Your recommendations should be directly relevant to your place of internship and
should be implementable for bringing improvement.
Conclude briefly by summarizing your main points of the report.

Dr Zermina Tasleem, Lecturer, BZU, Multan


Times New Roman - 16 Bold
Internship Report
On
United Bank Limited,
BZU Branch,
Multan

Session 2018-22

Times New Roman – 14 NOT Bold


Submitted by:

XYZ
BPA (Four-Year Program)
Roll No. 123

Times New Roman - 16 Bold

Department of Political Science,


Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan,
Pakistan

Dr Zermina Tasleem, Lecturer, BZU, Multan


Approval Sheet

Times New Roman - 14 Bold


Internship Report
On
United Bank Limited,
BZU Branch,
Multan

Coordinator:
Signature :
Name : Mr. ABC (Don’t write Mr. if Name starts with Syed)
Designation : Lecturer/Assistant Professor

Times New Roman – 14 NOT Bold


Department of Political Science,
Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

External Examiner
Signature :

Name :

Designation :

Head of department:
Signature :
Name : Mr. XYZ

Dr Zermina Tasleem, Lecturer, BZU, Multan

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