Rationale

The aim is to provide adequate report writing guidance to the student throughout their years of undergraduate study. Also to expose the students to all of the necessary elements required to produce a dissertation to the required standard prior to submission of this towards the end of their degree programme.

Successes

Standardisation of report writing framework within the Department.

Clear guidance for students on what is required from a written assignment.

Lessons Learnt

Start from 4^th Year individual project or dissertation guidance and work back down through the years.

Challenges

Identification of a departmental standard. Identifying key classes. Support from other academic staff.

Scalability

No issues of scalability.

Suggestions for Transferability

There should be a Departmental standard for report writing used throughout any Undergraduate programme. Once this has been established, identify key classes where guidance for the writing of specific assignments can be provided or enhanced. By identifying one core class in each year of any programme, report writing will be enhanced overall.

Attachments

Example: Report Writing Online Activity Content.pdf

Report writing content of online lesson concerning a technical report. (Please note this is just the content as the page layout of the online lesson cannot be preserved in a pdf).