Internship

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 Report Format 

The following format guideline outlines the specific requirements of the internship report in terms of the overall structure and necessary sections which are appropriate in most circumstances. There is no strict rule on the length and specific formatting of text. Interns should be able to format their report in the style most appropriate for their studies. However, a typical internship reports consist of three main sections: the preliminaries, theme in text and the reference material, all of which are outlined on the following pages.

 Preliminaries

The preliminaries have to include1. Title Page2. Acknowledgement and Endorsement3. Executive Summary4. Table of Contents

TheTitle Page

introduces interns’ reader to their report by listing the following information: report title; employer's name and location; date of report; intern’s name, student number, email address, and internship course number and year; the university name; and the ``partial fulfillment'' phrase.

TheAcknowledgement and Endorsement

on the second page should contain any acknowledgement of assistance and a statement of endorsement, which states that they wrote the report themselves and that it has not already received academic credit from another institution.

TheExecutive Summary

is the most important part of their report. It summarizes the body of the report, outlining its scope, purpose and major findings, highlighting the key conclusions and recommendations. The Executive Summary allows a busy manager to understand the report's significant information without reading the whole text. Interns should write their Executive Summary after they have written the report. It is not enough to state what they are `going to discuss’ in the report. The executive summary has to be self-contained and must state all the major points of the study. Interns are not required to discuss in detail how they derived the conclusions or argue about it; this...