CHAPTER 6

REPORT WRITING
Template for Report Writing
Your BA/ Thesis Should have be categorized into three parts
1. Preliminary Pages
2. Body of the Paper
3. Appendix(ces)
1. Preliminary Pages: The structure of the preliminary pages should include the following
in the order given below;
 COVER PAGE
 DECLARATION
 APPROVAL SHEET
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
 LISTS OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS
 TABLE OF CONTENTS
 LISTS OF TABLES
 LISTS OF FIGURES
 ABSTRACT
Note that:
 All the preliminary pages must be numbered with lower case Roman Number (i, ii, iii,
iv,…..) at bottom of the page centered except the cover page. No need of numbering the
cover page.
 Cover page should be designed in the following way;
 University logo
 The name of University, College, Department, and Program
 (16 font size, Bold, and all capital letters (Caps)
 Usually center on the page under the logo of the University
 Thesis Topic/Title, 14 font size, bold & all capital letters, and usually
center on the page
 The Name of the Author/Investigator and Advisor, 14 font size, bold, all

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 caps, and center on the page
 The purpose of the thesis or research report (14 font size, bold, title case,
and center on the page)
 The Date on which the final report is submitted, e.g. June, 2022 and the
City/Town in which the report is submitted, e.g. Bonga, Ethiopia (12 font
size, bold, aligned to the right.
 See the sample page given in the next page.
Every title of the preliminary, such as Declaration, Certification, Acknowledgements, others
(14 font size, bold, all caps, center on the page, text under each 12 font size, with 1.5 line spacing
except for Abstract. For the Abstract the line spacing should be 1 and the text should be italic
and it should be one paragraph.)

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 COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
BA PROGRAM
ASSESSING THE STRATEGIES AND CHALLENGES OF EFL
TEACHERS’ TEACHING WRITING SKILLS: IN CASE OF BONGA
UNIVERSITY

BY
NEBYU SOLOMON
ADVISOR
SELOMIE TIBEBE (PhD/the title name of your advisor)
A Senior Essay Submitted to Department of English Language and Literature
In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for Bachelor of Arts in English
Language

JUNE 2024
BONGA, ETHIOPIAN

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 DECLARATION
I, __________________________, declare that the work included in this research proposal is my
own work carried out by me under the guidance of my advisor. The report I have submitted, has
not been submitted for any other purpose to any other higher education institution/s.

I also declare that I have adhered to all principles of academic honesty and integrity and have not
misrepresented or fabricated or falsified any idea/data/fact/source in my research endeavour and
the sources used are duly acknowledged. I understand that any violation of academic integrity
will be cause for disciplinary action by the University.

Name of the Student: ____________________________________________

Signature of the student: __________________
Date: _____________________________

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 APPROVAL SHEET
BONGA UNIEVRSITY
COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
BA PROGRAM

Submitted By:
_____________________________ _________________ __________
Name of Student Signature Date
APPROVED BY
Name Signature Date
1) ________________________________ _____________ ___________
(Advisor)
2) ________________________________ _____________ ____________
(Examiner)

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2. Body of the Paper- The body of the paper should be organized into at least
Five chapters as follows;
 Starting from the first chapter to the end page number should be in Arabic number
(1, 2,3,…..) and centered.
 Every chapters and their respective titles should be; start on new pages, centered, 16
font size, bold, all caps)
 Titles/Topics under each chapter (first heading) should be; Justify, 14 font size, bold,
title case
 Sub titles/Sub-topics (second heading and above) should be; Justify, 12 font size,
bold, sentence case
 All body of the paper should be 12 font size
 The line spacing should be 1.5 for the entire thesis except for abstract (that to be 1)
 Use Times New Roman font style for all text throughout the paper including those
on the preliminary pages
 There must be margin of 1.5’’ on the left hand side of the page to allow for binding,
and 1’’ on the right side and 1’’ at the top and bottom of the pages throughout the
paper. It will be presented as follow

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CHAPTER-ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1. Background of the Study
1.2. Statement of the Problem
1.3. Basic Research Questions
1.4. Objectives of the Study
1.4.1. General objective
1.4.2. Specific objectives
1.5. Significance of the Study
1.6. Scope/Delimitation of the Study
1.7. Limitation of the Study
1.8. Organization of the Paper
1.7&1.8 are not included in proposal

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 CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
Under this chapter both theoretical and empirical literature should be critical analysed and
synthesized in detail. At the end of this chapter the conceptual framework should be sketched
pictorially indicating those variables considered in the present study.

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 CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY
3.1. Research design
3.2. Target Population and Sampling Techniques
3.2.1. Target Population
3.2.2. Sampling Techniques
3.2.3. Sample Size determination
3.3. Instruments of data collection
3.4. Reliability and Validity of the Instrument/pilot study
3.4.1. Reliability of the instrument
3.4.2. Validity of the instrument
3.5. Procedure of data collection
3.6. Method of Data Analysis
3.7. Ethical Consideration
Note that: The above sections and subsections listed under the Methodology chapter might not
apply for all researchers. It might be applicable for those who have used primary sources of data.

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 CHAPTER FOUR
DATA ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION

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 CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
5.1. Summary
5.2. Conclusions
5.3. Recommendations

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 REFERENCES
Note that: under this section be conscious the following issues;
 Use APA styles of references writing (Read the 7th edition APA Manual)
 Make sure that all in text cited are referred and vice versa
 Don’t use number and bulletin for listing references; rather alphabetically arrange and use
indentation after the first line of each reference.
 The reference list should start on a new page
Best, J.W. & James V. Kahn (1998) Research in Education

Berg, Bruce L. (1995). Qualitative Research Methods for the Social Sciences. 2nd ed.

Bhattacherjee, A. (2012) Social Science Research: Principles, Methods, and Practices.

Textbook collection

Brown, J.B. &Coombe, C (eds) (2015) The Cambridge Guide to Research in Language Teaching
and Learning. Cambridge: CUP.

Brown, J.D. (1988) Understanding research in second language learning: A teacher's Guide to
statistics & Research Design.

Campbell D. T.& Stanley JC (1963).Experimental and Quasi Experimental Designs for

Research. Chicago: Rand McNally.

Dornyei, Z. (2007) Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. Oxford, OUP.

Duff, P.A (2008) Case Study Research in Applied Linguistics. New York: Lawrence

Erlbbum Associates

Mimillan, J.H.(1997)Research Methods in Education

Nunan, D. (1992) Research Methods in Language Learning. Cambridge: CUP.

Seyler, D. (1993) Doing Research: The Complete Research Paper Guide. McGrawHill :

New York.

Wiersma, M. (1991) Research Methods in Education: An Introduction.

Veit , R.(199) Writing , Reading and Research McMillan, New York.

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 APPENDIX (CES)
The appendix (ces) is the last topic of the thesis. It may include Instruments (Questionnaire,
Interview guidelines, focused group discussion guidelines, maps as appropriate, and others
relevant information about the research). If more than one appendix, each should be listed as
Appendix-1, Appendis-2, and so on separate page.

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