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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION

TECHNOLOGY
INTERNSHIP REPORT GUIDE AND FORMAT

The purpose of the report is to:

• Reflect your ‘overall’ experience of the internship duration

• Help polish your writing skills
• Increase your understanding of report writing
• Contribute to the existing knowledge base

FONT STYLE/SIZE/SPACING

• Font: Times New Roman

• Size: 14 points bold for main headings
13 points bold for sub-headings
12 points for all other text
• Spacing: 1.5 Line Spacing

CONTENTS OF THE REPORT

• Title Page (Specimen Provided)

• Declaration (Specimen Provided)
• Acknowledgement Page
• Executive Summary
• Table of contents
o Chapter 1 Introduction of the Report
o Chapter 2 Overview of the Organization
o Chapter 3 What I have Learned
o Chapter 4 Analyses
o Chapter 5 Recommendations and Conclusion
• References (Write in APA format, all the sources consulted in the making
of your report)
• Appendices (Financial Statements, Supporting Documents etc.)
INDUSTRIAL ATTACHMENT REPORT ON FIELD ACTIVITES AT
[COMPANY/ORGANIZATION NAME, AREA]

JOAN K JOAN
BIT/…/…/DT

SUBMITTED TO:

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

KAMAPALA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY IN TANZANIA
SEPTEMBER 2024
 DECLARATION
This report is my original work and is a reflection of field activities undertaken during the
Industrial Attachment at …[company/organization name].

Student Name: ….Joan…..

Sign Date:

Supervisor’s Name:

Sign Date:

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This report has been prepared for the internship that has been done in the (Name of
Organization) to learn more on the practical aspect of the course and implementation of the
theory in the field with the purpose of fulfilling the requirements of the course program of (Name
of Program) I would like to express my sincere gratitude to (Supervisor at KIUT,
Manager/Director/HOD of the Organization worked in, other employees, staff members etc.) for
their support and encouragement.

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 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• An executive summary is a brief section at the beginning of a long report that
summarizes the document. As a 30-second or a one-minute version of the entire report
• Briefly, what is this about?
• Why is it important? [or] Why was it undertaken?
• What are the major findings or results?

An executive summary outlines the following information:

• The purpose
• The achievement of the internship objective
• The results
• The conclusions & recommendations

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

DECLARATION ..........................................................................................................................................................i
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ......................................................................................................................................... ii
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ....................................................................................................................................... iii
TABLE OF CONTENTS ...........................................................................................................................................iv
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION OF THE REPORT ......................................................................................1
CHAPTER TWO: OVERVIEW OF THE ORGANIZATION ...............................................................................2
CHAPTER THREE: WHAT I HAVE LEARNED ..................................................................................................3
CHAPTER FOUR: ANALYSES ................................................................................................................................4
CHAPTER FIVE: RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS.....................................................................5
REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................................................6
APPENDICES..............................................................................................................................................................7

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 CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION OF THE REPORT
This part includes basic information regarding the process of preparation of report. This part
should not be more than 4 pages with the following topics:

• Background: Basic information (without unnecessary details and descriptions) regarding

internship
• Purpose: Purpose may be to study an organization from
Marketing/HR/Finance/Accounting perspective, to understand the working/operations, to
analyze the organization using SWOT, PESTEL, Ratio, Common-size, Index, Trend
analysis techniques, whichever is applicable.
• Scope: As it is impossible to cover all the departments of organization in 5 weeks’ time,
therefore the internee should mention the major focus of his/her work or the specific
department attended.

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 CHAPTER TWO: OVERVIEW OF THE ORGANIZATION
This part should not be more than 5 pages, and covers the most relevant information about
the Main organization, with special focus on the branch/office of work

• Brief overview
• Major activities, products, organization hierarchy, organogram (organization chart)

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 CHAPTER THREE: WHAT I HAVE LEARNED
This is an important part of your report. Your activities during the period of internship. Your job
responsibility, in how many departments you were placed, what have you learned in those
departments etc.

• Duration of internship
• Departments assigned
• List of activities performed and How have you performed
• Conclude by compiling your overall experience

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 CHAPTER FOUR: ANALYSES
• SWOT analysis
o List the firm’s key external opportunities
o List the firm’s key external threats.
o List the firm’s key internal strengths.
o List the firm’s key internal weaknesses.
o Match strengths with opportunities and develop SO Strategies.
o Match weaknesses with opportunities and develop WO Strategies.
o Match strengths with threats and develop ST Strategies.
o Match weaknesses with threats and develop WT Strategies

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 CHAPTER FIVE: RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS
• Based on Strategies developed in SWOT
• Should not be Vague, Abstract, Idealistic
• Should be Specific, Concrete, Practical Internee should concentrate and focus on the
quality of recommendations. They should not be unclear, ambitious and general. Your
recommendations should be directly relevant to your place of internship and should be
implementable for bringing improvement. Conclude briefly by summarizing your main
points of the report

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REFERENCES

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APPENDICES