Preliminary pages
❖ Blank page
❖ Cover page
❖ Declaration
❖ Acknowledgement
❖ Dedication
❖ Abstract
❖ Table of contents
❖ List of figures
❖ List of Tables
❖ Definition of key terms
Chapter 1: -Introduction
❖ Motivation & background - 1 and half page (at least)
❖ Background of research
❖ Problem statement
❖ Aim of research
❖ Objectives of the research
❖ Justification of research
❖ Scope of research
❖ Research organization
Chapter 2: Research Methodology
❖ Chapter introduction
❖ Methodology for literature review
❖ Methodology for requirement specification, data collection and analysis
techniques e.g. Interviews, questionnaires.
❖ Methodology for system Analysis (current system); DFD, Context
diagram, flow charts
❖ Methodology for System Design (proposed system); Database design,
DFD, Context diagram, flow charts, sequence diagram, collaboration
diagrams, use case, pseudocodes e.t.c, Early System prototypes (I/O
design)
❖ Methodology for System implementation; back end, front end and
database technologies to be used
❖ Methodology for system testing; testing plan, testing techniques
❖ Methodology for System Deployment
❖ Chapter Summary
Chapter 3: Review of related work
❖ Chapter introduction
❖ History of the research topic
❖ Review of related prototypes, systems [from global to local]
❖ Emerging trends and patterns in the research area
❖ Research gap to be filled by your research
❖ Chapter summary
Chapter 4: System Analysis
❖ Chapter introduction
❖ Description of the current systems, its strengths and weakness
❖ Feasibility study & its conclusion
❖ data I/O analysis -Data captured by the current system,
relationship between the data, outputs from the system
❖ Process logic design of the current system;flow charts, context
diagrams & DFDS
❖ chapter summary
chapter 5-System Design of the proposed system
❖ introduction
❖ Description of the proposed systems, its strengths and
weakness
❖ Requirement analysis (functional, nonfunctional, user,
usability e.t.c).
❖ Conceptual architecture of the proposed system
❖ Process logic design of the proposes; use case, activity diagram,
sequence and class diagrams, flow charts, context diagrams,
DFDS
❖ Database Design: ER, Normalization and Data dictionary
❖ I/O of the proposed system (mock up screens)
❖ Chapter summary
Chapter 6: - Implementation System & Testing
❖ Chapter introduction
❖ System screenshots (at most 4)
❖ Testing plan
❖ evaluation plan
❖ Chapter summary
Chapter 7 Conclusions, findings & recommendations
❖ Introduction
❖ Conclusion
❖ Challenges Encountered.
❖ Future recommendations
❖ Conclusion
References/Bibliography
Appendix: e.g. Sample questionnaires, sample interviews,
budget schedule, time schedule, sample code (at most 2
pages)
Additional information
❖ chapter one, two, three and references forms the research
proposal
❖ all paragraphs should be justified, 1.5 spaced and done in times
new roman
❖ all figures should be labelled and cited
❖ all tables should be well labelled
❖ each idea should be on specific paragraphs
❖ problem statement should be written in continuous Prowse and
not bullets
❖ research justification should be anchored on existing
researches and not assumptions
❖ research scope should specify target organization and
features to be implemented by the proposed system
❖ Use the APA referencing style
