MINI PROJECTS
It is an activity that seeks to provide students with a learning environment and the incentive to metabolize their knowledge from various learning fields that are critically and creatively applied to current contexts in life.
It evolves under the direction and monitoring of an advisor or mentor.
GUIDELINES FOR MINI PROJECT:
1. Be short and crisp: Introduction is the first parameter for the upheavals of the next probable content that the project would contain. To write your introduction, one should be concise and direct. It is because the project summary reveals the context that you have added to the project. The first paragraph should depict everything like basic information, problems you encountered, suggested solutions to problems, etc.
2. Be clear in what you write:
The introduction is essential to read the simplest way, plus the most attractive way to write a paragraph. Since you teach yourself to be simple and easy to understand for the reader. If the first part is confusing, the curiosity of readers in continuing through the project would be diminished.
3. Give background information:
Writing the introduction means starting with the reason you were involved in carrying out the project, including the full context, i.e. the basis on which the concept behind the project emerged. Giving basic information is essential as it tells the long story of the project work.
4. Explain the reasons in the introduction:
In the introduction, you can explain why you have selected a particular theme for your project and what has prompted you to work on the project. In the introduction, you can explain why you selected a particular theme for your project and what inspired you to do the work of the project. Explain the reasons given in the introductory paragraph.
5. Explain why it is important to you:
It is reasonable to mention in the introductory paragraph why it is so important to you. The project’s importance to you and the audience must be clarified in a straightforward way to the audience and the avid readers, as they would like to know why the subject is important to you.
6. The outline or the blueprint of the content:
The introduction paragraph includes a blueprint or description of the content. This will let readers know what’s in the next project paras or modules. The outline should tell readers what the project is all about and whether the reader should go through the whole project.
7. Do not disclose much about the project’s content:
The intro wouldn’t show anything about the project, and wouldn’t free any attention to the remaining project. Just be careful to write a gist so you might assume that the introduction has no clear details.
The introduction must be like making a mystery for the reader, on what might be next in the project. Only the anticipation will make the reader get addicted to the project and the curiosity can remain intact.
8. Give instances or examples:
Giving examples of project work makes the project very interesting and worth reading. It also allows the project to appear different from many other projects since many do not have instances.
CONCLUSION
So, the above are some of the things that should be kept in mind when writing an introduction to project work. In all types of projects, the introduction is a must since it functions as a mirror of what is written in the next project.
The project must be carried out in a professional manner and the awards will be won only by professional work. Writing an outline is important as it helps to launch the work of the team.
Format of the Mini Project Report
Below is a template for the mini project reports, in the form of an outline with recommended headlines. Under each headline is an explanation of what the corresponding section of your report should contain. The report should begin with a title followed by the names of the authors.
INTRODUCTION
The Introduction should provide a brief description of the application addressed in the mini project and of the particular issue(s) to be investigated. This report should be written so that it is accessible to other readers than the teacher. It is allowed to base the introduction on the mini project description you got from the teacher. In that case, it is important that you reformulate the description so that is becomes shorter and is expressed in your own words. However, the description must not be so short that it requires access to the original document to be understandable.
APPROACH
In this section you should summarize your approach to the problem. You should give an account for the algorithms you have chosen to use. Moreover, you should give arguments why these algorithms are appropriate in this context. However, the complete program text should not be inserted here, but in an appendix, some mini projects consist of several parts. Then, it is recommended that the “Approach” section has one subsection for each part of the project.
RESULTS
Here, you should report the results of each part of the project. To demonstrate that the program works as intended, there should be examples of program execution. It is important that you convince the reader that you have been able to carry out the mini project according to the requirements in the mini project description. To that end you need to comment on the results and give arguments for their correctness.
DISCUSSION
In this section you place the additional comments that you find relevant to make, if any. Some of the mini projects explicitly contain issues to discuss. They should be addressed in this section.
REFERENCES
Here you should include a list of the literature that you cite in the report.
APPENDIX
Your must include your programs in an appendix to the report. Other material that you want to include but that does not fit in the main text can also be included as appendices.