GUIDELINE FOR WRITING REPORT

GUIDELINE FOR WRITING PT REPORT

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UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM

SCHOOL OF INFORMATICS AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

COMPUTER SCIENCE UNIT

IS 243/342 - PRACTICAL TRAINING REPORT

Student Name (and Reg. no.): Joseph Cosmas (200x -04-XXXXX)

Company Name:                    XL Communication Ltd.

Company Physical Address:  Mwinjuma Road, House no. 43,

                                                Babati, Manyara.

         

Industrial Supervisor’s Name:        Ms./Mr./Mrs./Rev./Dr./Prof. Xxxxxxx

DoCS Supervisor’s Name:     Ms./Mr./Mrs./Rev./Dr./Prof. Yyyyyyy

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Abstract

Give brief overview of the report including brief description of main assigned task, main achievement, describe his/her report structure, and few words concerning encountered problems and suggestions/recommendations. (Should be in one separate page)

Table of Contents

List main chapters and their subtopics covered by the report and indicate respective page number from which those chapters and subtopics are located within the report.

Chapter 1:      Introduction

-             Give an introduction of the overall environment of the assigned PT station including the name and its nature, physical location, historical background, founders (if any), vision and mission and main activity(ies) done -- not necessarily whether it is computer related activity(ies) but basically a core function of the organization.

-             Describe how the organizational structure of the company have set strategically to accomplish core function

-             Provide an overall picture of various activities performed by IT department of that organization and show roles of IT department towards accomplishment of core function.

-             Provide brief description of assigned task(s) and describe whether assigned task(s) fall under the roles of IT department to the organization. If not fall under roles of IT department then explain circumstances lead to such assignment.

Chapter 2:      Assigned Task(s)

Provide in-depth description of task(s) assigned by TO or any other supervisor at respective centre

·            Clearly explain the problem from which every particular task arose

·            Describe functional and non-functional characteristics of the prior system associated with the problem

·            Provide clear description of proposed solution on solving the problem

·            Describe functional and technical requirements towards implementation of proposed solution (may use relevant literature)

·            Describe technical and non-technical approaches used to implement proposed solution

·            Describe results after implementation of proposed solution

·            Explain users’ adaptation behaviour after implementation of proposed solution e.g. users/organizational acceptance, users/organizational satisfaction

·            If adaptation behaviours were negative then explain factors towards such a negative impact otherwise explain benefits achieved from every assigned duty, which student and participating Institution/Organisation attain.

Chapter 3:      Overall Programme Challenges

Provide in-depth description of challenges encountered during student participation in respective centre and measures used to control those challenges.

·           Challenges should be those which in one way or another affect student participation

·           Challenges could be categorized, but not limited to following groups

                                                              i)      Psychological Challenges

-     Student disappointment from unexpected location assigned by CS department or proposed by him/herself. Note that student should explain reasons of being disappointed

                                    -     Ambiguity arose after arrival to the centre e.g. refusal of being accepted due to lack of prior confirmation of their acceptance to respective organization

      -     On-centre disappointment due to organizational operational behaviour e.g. relationship with other employees

ii)   Physical Challenges

-          lack of resources e.g. computers (hardware and/or required-software), office/lab, supervisor, unguaranteed electricity, just to mention few

iii)  Technical Challenges

                                    -     Assignment of irrelevant task(s) i.e. not in the field of computer science

                                    -     Assignment of task(s) not in scope of student level of coverage

                                    -     Lack of skill(s) required to accomplish assigned task(s)

                                    -     Shortage of time

·            Student should provide recommendation and suggestion on solving encountered challenges to let the Department and other students to learn on how to overcome those challenges

Chapter 4:      Recommendation and Suggestion

            Recommendation and suggestion can be classified, but not limited to follows categories:

            i)          Further study on assigned task(s):

                                    Student may recommend further study to be taken on assigned task(s) by showing way forward and suggest timeframe from which he/she could proceed with such study

                        ii)         Programme improvement:

                        -     Suggest task(s) that could be assigned to student based on level/material covered

                        -     Recommend study areas whose theories should be covered before student assigned task(s) mentioned above

                        -     Suggest any efficient approach in finding industrial attachment locations

                        -     Recommend organizations from which he/she think could learn better

                        -     Recommend/suggest any relevant issues that could lead to improvement of programme organization and conduct

Chapter 5: Conclusion and Acknowledgement (if seen necessary)

            A good conclusion of the training programme and solution imparted by student towards solving assigned task(s) should be given. Either student can acknowledge employees of the organization who contribute much towards his/her participation and achievement

References

            All references should be listed and given alphabetically. Student should read international standards of writing references and the way any citation from reference usually presented.

Appendices

            Student must show diagrams and/or pictures used or resulted towards/after implementation of proposed solution of assigned task. The diagram/picture can be a Graphical User Interface of a program, Flowcharts, Data Flow Diagram, Entity-Relationship Diagram, Charts, Graphs, Tables, sample calculations, etc.

N.B:

While keeping to this guiding Report Format, the student should feel free to include any other material which you consider appropriate and relevant to appear in report.