MDM4U Culminating Project
Complete Written Report
Your whole project should be written in report form (see requirements below) and submitted in a suitable folder (or in .pdf format) including all the sections outlined previously.
Tips for the Written Report
Content Requirements for the Written Report
Your report must include the following sections in this order:
Here is the rubric I will be using to mark your report.
Here is a written report exemplar so that you can have an idea of what your report can look like.
Tips for the Written Report
- Use a font style that is easy to read (like Times New Roman or Arial) size 12
- Use 1.5 or double spacing
- Make sure that everything is in the correct order (see below)
- Make sure there are no obvious errors:
- use the spelling and grammar check
- read the report out loud to yourself to make sure it makes sense
- get someone else to read your report to proofread it
- Make sure that all graphs/charts are properly labelled, titled, and readable.
- Graphs that are being compared should have the same scale.
- Make sure to write in a formal essay style.
Content Requirements for the Written Report
Your report must include the following sections in this order:
- Title Page
- Include a descriptive title of your report.
- Also include your name and the date of submission.
- Table of Contents
- Include page references for all of the following sections.
- Abstract
- This is a brief, one-paragraph description of your whole project.
- It contains the purpose of the research with a very short summary of the results.
- Introduction
- This should be approximately 200 words (one or two paragraphs).
- State the Question/Hypothesis/Purpose of your research.
- Why is this topic important to you?
- In what way do you think the results of your research can be useful? (to you personally, to other students, to society at large, etc.)
- Plan and Methodology
- Explain in detail exactly how you carried out your data collection, what data you collected, and what you hoped it would show.
- You should specifically describe how your data will answer your question or prove/disprove your hypothesis.
- You should also highlight any difficulties and problems you had in finding the data (including possible sources of bias)
- Analysis
- Describe in detail everything you have done to the data (mean/mode/median, determine correlations, etc.)
- Include only the most relevant parts of your analysis. Do not include anything that is not worth discussing.
- Avoid repetitious graphs; choose a selection that will display the data to best support your comments. Include other graphs in appendices and refer to them in their location.
- Do not be overly concerned if your hypothesis is not proved; rather, try to explain why this may have happened.
- Conclusions
- Use your data analysis to answer your original question.
- If you have inconclusive evidence, explain why and suggest what you would do to develop your research further.
- If your results appear biased in some way, try to explain why.
- Appendices
- This section should include all the large tables/charts of analysis that were not appropriate to include in the main body of the report.
- Label each with a letter (i.e. Appendix A, Appendix B, etc.), and refer to it in the main text if necessary.
- Your data should be referenced here for websites, etc.
- You can use MLA or APA format for references.
- Your survey results should be included in an Appendix.
- Your appendices can be separate files from your report.
Here is the rubric I will be using to mark your report.
Here is a written report exemplar so that you can have an idea of what your report can look like.