CONVENTIONAL FORMAT

Preliminary

Title Page

Original Literary Work Declaration Abstract

Acknowledgements Table of Contents List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Symbols and Abbreviations List of Appendices

Main Body

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter

2: Literature Review Chapter

3: Methodology

Chapter 4: Results

Chapter 5: Discussion

Chapter 6: Conclusion

References (A consolidated list of references for all chapters)

Supplementary

Appendix

For MBA7173 Research Methodology, you are required to prepare:

Final Report – Research Methodology

• Chapter1 – Proposal Chapter
• Chapter2 – Literature Review / Conceptual Framework / Theoretical Framework
• Chapter3- Research Methodology

Include preliminary pages such as the cover page, table of content, list of figures/ list of tables (if any) and abstract

FORMAT SPECIFICATION 

LINE SPACING

• Thebody of the text should be typed with double spacing
• Singlespacing is only permitted in tables, figures, footnotes, citation

MARGIN

The text should have the following margins:

• Top: 2.0 cm or 0.79 inch
• Right: 2.0 cm or 79 inch
• Left: 4.0 cm or 57 inch
• Bottom: 2.0 cm or 79 inch

Additional guidelines regarding margin are as follows:

• Donot type more than one sentence after the bottom
• Ifit is necessary to do so, it should only be for a footnote or the completion of the last sentence of the chapter, topic or sub-topic or information in a figure.
• Alltables and figures must be placed within the specified
• Thelast paragraph of the page should contain at least two  If it does not, the
• paragraphshould begin on the next page