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QCD Projects - Guidelines for Preparation Important points to bear in mind when writing projects
Sources, Acknowledgement and References You should work from many sources; books research work, newspapers and magazines, reports and statistics. You may use some for background material as well as direct sources. All Sources must be acknowledged. List carefully your sources in the specified format in the bibliography at the end of your project and ensure that all references are numbered. The format of your references should be as follows:
(1) Author, Title, Publisher, Date, Page Number., (in that order). These should be consistent with cross-references inserted in the body of your work; and shown within the script, as follows: [Author, Date, Page number]^1 (embedded within the line of text) Where the same source is used in several places, after the first use of a reference you may indicate this particular reference as follows: [Ibid, Page Number]^1 (embedded within the line of text) Your sections should be numbered within the chapters and should be properly shown in the list of contents [All Headings & Sub-Heading should be numbered accordingly]. Depending on your professional award you should have 30-200 or more listed references.
Presentation, Layout, and Binding Research projects should be presented as follows: · Title Page, Contents Page · Acknowledgements, Synopsis · Body Text (Content), Conclusion, and · Bibliography, (in that order) with possible Appendices if required.
In general, the thesis Projects binding and layout should be as follows: · Binding QCD Project: Royal Blue Hardback · Page Layout Margins: 30mm to left, 15mm to right, 30mm to top,30mm to bottom (based on A4 page size) · Text Layout: Double spacing with the text font in "Times New Roman" or similar typeface is recommended (use font size 12 only)
Spine Printing: The spine should be printed in Gold Leaf indicating the name of student, MONTH & YEAR of graduation and TITLE of degree with respect to the thesis spine being vertical, as shown below: Top of the Spine: Surname & Initials [eg: MARTINEZ, N.P.] Middle of the Spine: Month & Year of award [eg: August 2011] Bottom of Spine: Award Title (Project) [eg: QCD Mandatory Qualifying Project)
Diagrams, Charts and Tables The addition of diagrams, charts and tables is to be encouraged for the clear interpretation of data. You should draw information and conclusions from them, clearly indicating sources, dates and units. However one does not wish to see complete duplication of figures in charts and narrative sections. Where tables are not immediately inserted within appropriate narrative sections, the source of information quoted should be referenced to avoid ambiguity.
Depth Of Research Work The depth of coverage should be appropriate to the level of professional award being sought. Care should be taken that the synopsis accurately reflects the project content in terms of its objectives and scope so as not to mislead the casual reader.
Conclusion It is expected that the work reaches well researched, elucidated conclusion(s). This may well be in a different direction from that originally expected but this is one of the objectives of your research work; to research and consider material from many sources, reaching logical conclusions there from. Your conclusion should always refer to the contents of your Project.
Preparation, Presentation and Submission of Project Theses The work should be prepared on CD Rom using a word processing package preferably Microsoft Word. The final project draft should be printed using a good quality printer (preferably a Laser Printer), a good standard is expected. TWO copies of the final project (council's approved draft) should be submitted (together with the project's CD Rom) for hardback binding and further processing.
QCD Mandatory Project (All Candidates) · Duration: Flexible · Length: Up to 120,000-word project of high standard · Discipline: Commercial Diplomacy
Further information on durations It should be emphasised that a research project will only be considered if the first draft has been successfully approved by Council. Further amendments and draft submissions may be required to satisfy Council. These must be completed within the maximum allowed duration unless there are extenuating circumstances.
Copyright Legal requirements must be observed and candidates are reminded of the limitations and benefits they can have in this respect. Sources and quotations from other publications must at all times be acknowledged.
All projects are regarded as the intellectual property of Association of Certified Commercial Diplomats and no one including authors shall be permitted to reproduce the research work in full or in part in any format, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior written permission of Association of Certified Commercial Diplomats |