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Mini Research Guidelines
Mini Research Guidelines
x. List of appendices
The Cover Page
This is the top page of the report and should include the University name, Name of School,
Name of Department, University logo, candidate name and registration number in brackets,
Purpose and submission date of the Report.
The Declaration page
This is a statement whose format is indicated below
I, xxxxxxxxxxx, do hereby declare that this mini research report is the result of my own work,
except to the extent indicated in the acknowledgements, references and by comments included in
the body of the report, and that it has not been submitted in part or in full for any other degree to
any other university.
………………………………………
Name of student
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Date
3.12 Summary
4.2 Demographics
4.3 Summary.
5.3 Conclusions
5.4 Recommendations
References
This is a list of references of all works cited in your mini research report. The Harvard system of
referencing should be used. At this level, 15-25 references should suffice. Do not list references
that were not cited in the text. Make sure that you have listed all references cited in the text.
Appendices
Attach such documents as copies of the research instrument(s), letter of introduction from the
department, authorisation letter by a particular institution giving you permission to do research
and any other information that may add more meaning to your study. All appendices should be
referred to in the text. Appendices should be numbered in Roman numerals e.g. Appendix I, II,
III, IV. Do not assign page numbers to this section of the mini report.
GENERAL PRESENTATION GUIDELINES
Use Times New Roman, Font size 12. For chapter headings use Font 14.
Use 1.5 line spacing
Margins should be justified
Margins should be 3.5 cm left, 2.5 cm right, top and bottom.
Use space after paragraph. Do not indent.
Page numbers should be centred at the bottom of the page. Do not number appendices.
All headings should be bold and different levels
Chapters should be numbered in Arabic numerals e.g. CHAPTER ONE, CHAPTER
TWO…and centred.
Leave a single spacing between chapter number and title
Leave double spacing between the chapter title and the first subheading (introduction)