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 ====== Project report ====== ====== Project report ======
 +[[guide:home|Student guide home]]
  
 The purpose of this document is to support you in writing a good project report. This is very important as reporting and article writing is one of the main academic skills. The purpose of this document is to support you in writing a good project report. This is very important as reporting and article writing is one of the main academic skills.
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       * Your name       * Your name
       * “University of Southern Denmark” and name of center, department or faculty.       * “University of Southern Denmark” and name of center, department or faculty.
-      * Maybe a nice picture, sketch or diagram from your project.+      * Maybe a picture, sketch or diagram from your project.
  
   * Title page   * Title page
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     * Consider using a common template for sections in all the meat and potato chapters such as:     * Consider using a common template for sections in all the meat and potato chapters such as:
       * Introduction       * Introduction
 +      * Analysis
       * Materials and methods       * Materials and methods
       * Results       * Results
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 ===== Report length ===== ===== Report length =====
-A masters thesis (30 ECTS) report from a single student should have a length no more than 60 pages plus maximum 15 pages of appendices. +A masters thesis (30 ECTS) report from a single student should have a length no more than 50 pages plus maximum 15 pages of appendices. If you are two students working together, you can add 10 pages.
  
-A bachelors thesis (15 ECTS) report from a single student should have a length no more than 35 pages plus maximum 10 pages of appendices.+A bachelors thesis (15 ECTS) report from a single student should have a length no more than 25 pages plus maximum 10 pages of appendices. If you are two students working together, you can add 5 pages.
  
 In case of groups consisting of two students please add 50% to the maximum lengths. In case of groups consisting of two students please add 50% to the maximum lengths.
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 Consider using the Times New Roman font 12pt or the LaTeX standard font when writing. You might have many ideas about great fonts to use, but just remember that there are experts in this that know much more about readability than you ;-)  Consider using the Times New Roman font 12pt or the LaTeX standard font when writing. You might have many ideas about great fonts to use, but just remember that there are experts in this that know much more about readability than you ;-) 
  
-If you prefer to use extra line spacing, say 1.0 to 1.5 then this is fine. The report length requirements refer to standard formatting, so if you choose to increase the line spacing then you may scale the length accordingly.+If you prefer to use extra line spacing, say 1.5 then this is fine. The report length requirements refer to standard formatting (normal pages of 2400 chars), so if you choose to increase the line spacing then you may scale the length accordingly.
  
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