PRESENTATION

on
NTCC GUIDELINES for
TERM PAPER
Presented By: ABS

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Flow of the Presentation

• Objective
• Methodology
• Credits
• General Guidelines
• Abstract Guidelines
• Procedure
• Contents
• Evaluation
• Timelines
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 OBJECTIVE
Term Paper: A 'term paper' is a research paper
written by students during a specified semester or
summer break. This is generally intended to
describe an event, a topic, a concept or to put forth
a point. It is a written original work discussing a
topic in detail, usually several typed pages in length
and is often due at the end of a semester. It is
designed to introduce student how to write papers
through investigation of topics that are of special
interest to them.

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 METHODOLOGY

• A term (or research) paper is primarily a record

of intelligent reading in several sources on a
particular subject.
• The students will choose the topic at the
beginning of the session in consultation with the
faculty assigned. The progress of the paper will
be monitored regularly by the faculty. At the
end of the semester the detailed paper on the
topic will be submitted to the faculty assigned.
The evaluation will be done by Board of
examiners comprising of the faculties.
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 Term Paper Credits

Course Course Code No of Credits

B Com BCH 330 3

BBA BBA 360 3

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 General Guidelines for Term Paper
The term paper work is to be done by students
individually. Students will be allotted faculty
guides. Students need to submit:

i) Topic for the term paper/independent

study/seminar
ii) Abstract (Not more than 150 words)

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 ABSTRACT GUIDELINES
1. An abstract is a self-contained, short, and
powerful statement that describes a larger work.
Components vary according to discipline. An
abstract of a scientific work will contain the
scope, purpose, and contents of the work.
Hence, it briefly states the essential information
of a paper/study.

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 ABSTRACT GUIDELINES
2. Start off your abstract by answering one or all of the
following:
• Why did you decide to do this study?
• Why is this study important?
• If your topic is about something well-known enough,
you can reference the names of people or places that
your paper focuses on.

3. If your topic is about something well-known enough,

you can reference the names of people or places that
your paper focuses on.

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 SPECIFICATIONS FOR ABSTRACT

The abstract shall be computer typed (Font -

Times Roman, Size-12 point for normal text and
Times Roman, Size-14 point, Bold for headings)
and printed on A4 size paper. Word limit: 200-
250.

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 SAMPLE ABSTRACT
Computer system is a tool for processing many applications. Computer
installation management should know the performance all the time in order
to tune and upgrade the system which will provide high performance of the
system for users. The objective of this paper is to study parameters selection
for a computer system performance evaluation. The study rightly deals with
system data statistics which involve in the activies of computer system, Bank
for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC), with NOS/VE operating
system. The important part of the paper is to study the hardware and
software configuration, emphasizing on operating system, and the kinds of
system data including analysis of the statistic data. Performance parameters
such as system attributes, memory attributes, scheduling attributes and
system bottleneck which involve with CPU, memory and disk I/O were
studied. The system activity data for analyzing CPU, memory and disk I/O
performance were collected and used to study system behaviour. The
observations/conclusion from the study/paper provides parameters selection
for improvement of system bottleneck and parameters for tuning BAAC's
computer system.

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 GUIDELINES FOR TERM PAPER
The procedure for writing a term paper may
consists of the following steps:
• Choosing a subject
• Finding sources of materials
• Collecting the notes
• Outlining the paper
• Writing the first draft
• Editing & preparing the final paper

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 GUIDELINES FOR TERM PAPER
1. Choosing a Subject
The subject chosen should not be too general.

2. Finding Sources of materials

• The material sources should be not more than 10 years old
unless the nature of the paper is such that it involves
examining older writings from a historical point of view.
• Begin by making a list of subject-headings under which you
might expect the subject to be listed.
• The sources could be books and magazines articles, news
stories, periodicals, scientific journals etc.

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 GUIDELINES FOR TERM PAPER
3. Collecting the notes
• Skim through sources, locating the useful
material, then make good notes of it, including
quotes and information for footnotes.
• Get facts, not just opinions. Compare the facts
with author's conclusion.
• In research studies, notice the methods and
procedures, results & conclusions.
• Check cross references.

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 GUIDELINES FOR TERM PAPER
4. Outlining the paper
• Review notes to find main sub-divisions of the
subject.
• Sort the collected material again under each main
division to find sub-sections for outline so that it
begins to look more coherent and takes on a
definite structure. If it does not, try going back
and sorting again for main divisions, to see if
another general pattern is possible.
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 GUIDELINES FOR TERM PAPER
5. Writing the first draft
• Write the paper around the outline, being sure
that you indicate in the first part of the paper
what its purpose is. You may follow the following:
– statement of purpose
– main body of the paper
– statement of summary and conclusion
• Avoid short, bumpy sentences and long straggling
sentences with more than one main ideas.
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 GUIDELINES FOR TERM PAPER
6. Editing & Preparing the final Paper
• Before writing a term paper, you should ensure you
have a question which you attempt to answer in your
paper. This question should be kept in mind throughout
the paper. Include only information/ details/ analyses
of relevance to the question at hand. Sometimes, the
relevance of a particular section may be clear to you
but not to your readers. To avoid this, ensure you
briefly explain the relevance of every section.
• Read the paper to ensure that the language is not
awkward, and that it "flows" properly.

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 GUIDELINES FOR TERM PAPER
• Check for proper spelling, phrasing and sentence
construction.
• Check for proper form on footnotes, quotes, and
punctuation.
• Check to see that quotations serve one of the following
purposes:
• Show evidence of what an author has said.
• Avoid misrepresentation through restatement.
• Save unnecessary writing when ideas have been well
expressed by the original author.
• Check for proper form on tables and graphs. Be certain that
any table or graph is self-explanatory.

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 CONTENTS FOR TERM PAPER
Term papers should be composed of the following sections:

• Title page
• Acknowledgement
• Abstract
• Table of contents
• Introduction
• Literature Review
• Methodology & Discussion
• Conclusion & Future Prospects
• References
• Appendix
• Plagiarism Report

Generally, the introduction, discussion, conclusion and bibliography part should account for a third of
the paper and the review part should be two thirds of the paper.

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STRUCTURE OF
TERM PAPER
It should be composed of the following sections:

1. Title page
2. Acknowledgement
3. Abstract
4. Table of contents

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STRUCTURE OF
TERM PAPER
5. Introduction: This includes overview of topic or
what is the issue or problem? What is the
significance of the problem or topic?
6. Literature Review/Background: What is
previous/current thinking, findings, and approaches
on the topic/problem?
7. Methodology/Discussion: Explanation of topic,
any comparison/observation/study. How did you
search for information or data on the topic? What is
your impression of the utility, relevance, or quality
of the data you collected?

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STRUCTURE OF
TERM PAPER

The discussion section either follows the results

or may alternatively be integrated in the results
section. The section should consist of a
discussion of the results of the study focusing on
the question posed in the research paper.

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STRUCTURE OF
TERM PAPER
8. Results (If any)

9. Conclusion: Summarize the most important

findings. It can include summary of main
limitations of the study at hand. What
conclusions can you draw? Also include details
of possibilities for related future research

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STRUCTURE OF
TERM PAPER

The conclusion is often thought of as the easiest

part of the paper but should by no means be
disregarded. There are a number of key
components which should not be omitted. These
include:
• summary of question posed
• summary of findings
• summary of main limitations of the study at hand
• details of possibilities for related future research
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STRUCTURE OF
TERM PAPER
• The bibliography should contain ALL
references included in the paper. References
not included in the text in any form should
NOT be included in the bibliography.
• The key to a good bibliography is consistency.
Choose a particular convention and stick to
this.

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 REFERENCES
From the very beginning of a research project, you
should be careful to note all details of articles
gathered.
• The bibliography should contain ALL references
included in the paper. References not included in
the text in any form should NOT be included in
the bibliography.
• The key to a good bibliography is consistency.
Choose a particular convention and stick to this.
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 REFERENCING
• Bibliographical conventions
Monographs
Crystal, D. (2001), Language and the internet.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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 REFERENCING
• Edited volumes
Gass, S./Neu, J. (eds.) (1996), Speech acts
across cultures. Challenges to communication
in a second language. Berlin/ NY: Mouton de
Gruyter.
• [(eds.) is used when there is more than one
editor; and (ed.) where there is only one
editor. In German the abbreviation used is
(Hrsg.) for Herausgeber].

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 REFERENCING
• Edited articles
Schmidt, R./Shimura, A./Wang, Z./Jeong, H.
(1996), Suggestions to buy: Television
commercials from the U.S., Japan, China, and
Korea. In: Gass, S./Neu, J. (eds.) (1996),
Speech acts across cultures. Challenges to
communication in a second language. Berlin/
NY: Mouton de Gruyter: 285-316.

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 REFERENCING
• Journal articles
McQuarrie, E.F./Mick, D.G. (1992), On
resonance: A critical pluralistic inquiry into
advertising rhetoric. Journal of consumer
research 19, 180-197.

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 REFERENCING
• Electronic book
Chandler, D. (1994), Semiotics for beginners [HTML
document]. Retrieved [5.10.'01] from the World Wide
Web, http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/.

• Electronic journal articles

Watts, S. (2000) Teaching talk: Should students learn
'real German'? [HTML document]. German as a Foreign
Language Journal [online] 1. Retrieved [12.09.'00] from
the World Wide Web, http://www.gfl-journal.com/.

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 REFERENCING
• Other websites
Verterhus, S.A. (n.y.), Anglicisms in German car
advertising. The problem of gender assignment [HTML
document]. Retrieved [13.10.'01] from the World Wide
Web, http://olaf.hiof.no/~sverrev/eng.html.

• Unpublished papers
Takahashi, S./DuFon, M.A. (1989), Cross-linguistic
influence in indirectness: The case of English directives
performed by native Japanese speakers. Unpublished
paper, Department of English as a Second Language,
University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu.

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 REFERENCING
• Unpublished theses/ dissertations
Möhl, S. (1996), Alltagssituationen im
interkulturellen Vergleich: Realisierung von Kritik
und Ablehnung im Deutschen und Englischen.
Unpublished MA thesis, University of Hamburg.
• Walsh, R. (1995), Language development and the
year abroad: A study of oral grammatical
accuracy amongst adult learners of German as a
foreign language. Unpublished PhD dissertation,
University College Dublin.

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 APPENDIX
The appendix should be used for data collected
(e.g. questionnaires, transcripts, ...) and for
tables and graphs not included in the main text
due to their subsidiary nature or to space
constraints in the main text.

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FORMAT OF TERM PAPER

The file should be submitted in plastic folder

with following specifications:
• A4 size paper
• Font: Arial(10 pts) or Times New
Roman(12pts)
• Line Spacing(1.5)
• Top & Bottom Margins 1 inch/2.5 cm
• Left & Right Margins 1.25 inch/3 cm
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FORMAT OF TERM PAPER
• Tables and Figures
1. Each sketch, drawing, graph and photograph should have
a figure number and title below the figure etc. Numbering
should be sequential, chapter wise. For instance, if there
are 24 figures chapter 3 spread over all of its sections the
figure numbers run from Figure 3.1 through Figure 3.24. In
figures experimental data should typically be represented
by centered symbols, and theoretical data by continuous
curves.
2. Each table should have a table number and caption above
the table. Numbering should be sequential, chapter wise,
as in the case of Figure numbers. For instance, if there are
18 tables in chapter 3 the table numbers run from Figure
3.1 through Figure 3.18.
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FORMAT OF TERM PAPER

3. Make sure that figures and tables are

complete in other respects such as legends,
references (if any) and coordinate labels with
units. Each figure and table must be explicitly
referred to in the text and located where its first
reference occurs, preferably after the reference.

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TERM PAPER SUBMISSION
GUIDELINES
• Report Size
The maximum number of pages of the Report should be
preferably between 30-50 pages.

• Paper Size
The standard size of paper of a Report is A4 paper must
be used for printing the report.

• Single-Sided Printing
It is suggested that the report be printed on one side of
the paper.

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REPORT REQUIREMENTS

S. Word length Binding Type Color Coding Report Retention Details

Credit Units No. of Copies
No.

Up to 1 month of
3 to 4 Credits Up to 3000 02 copies Plastic Folder None declaration of
2
Words Final result of semester
(at Institutional Level)

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REPORT REQUIREMENTS
Word length will be exclusive of Preface,
Copyright Page, Faculty Guide Approval Page,
Acknowledgement, Table of Contents, List of
Tables , List of Figures, Certificates etc.

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 PLAGIARISM

• The NTCC report must be written by the student

himself/herself. However, if required to cite the work of
others, it should be appropriately acknowledged.

• It is mandatory that each NTCC report shall be checked for

plagiarism through Turntin or similar software before
submission. The content which is based on existing
published work must come from properly quoted material
and from the references cited section. After checking the
accuracy of the citations and references of such content,
the plagiarism report should not return similarity index of
more than 15% in any circumstance.

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Conduct and Progress
Monitoring of NTCC
• The students will undertake NTCC as per the course
requirement and work schedule.
• The students will regularly submit their faculty guide
weekly progress as per the prescribed format of Weekly
Progress Report (WPR) attached at Appendix ‘E’.
• Students undergoing workshop/conference are not
required to prepare WPR.
• The student will send the WPR by email to his/her faculty
guide.
• Faculty guide will mark the status of Weekly Progress
Report (WPR) received and quality of work done for future
reference. Faculty guide will also give feedback to students.

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ASSESSMENT SCHEME
Continuous Evaluation: 40%
Based on abstract writing, interim draft, general
approach, research orientation, readings
undertaken etc.

Final Evaluation: 60%

Based on the organization of the paper, objectives/
problem profile/ issue outlining,
comprehensiveness of the research, flow of the
idea/ ideas, relevance of material used/presented,
outcomes vs. objectives, presentation/ viva etc.
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 ASSESSMENT PLAN
For Term Paper/Independent Study/ Seminar:
Each department/faculty of studies must follow the above assessment and properly maintain records for all NTCC.

S.No. Parameter Weightage (10) Weightage (14) Weightage(16)

1. 1

Introduction and Statement of the Problem or Objective or

2 2
Importance or Significance of topic

2. 2
Review of Literature/History/Issues to be covered 2 2

3 2
Methodology/Methods/Approach/Types 3 3

4 2
Data Collection, Analysis, Components, Experiment/Results,
Findings/Outcomes and Conclusions 3 4

5 1
Future Scope and Limitations outlined 1 1

6 1
Quality of Work and Written Expression 2 2

7 1
Student Learning Outcomes 1 2
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SUBMISSION OF FINAL REPORT/
TERM PAPER
• The most important aspect of the courses is the final
report. Therefore following must be ensured for
producing quality report.
• The student will start the term paper/independent
study report/seminar/minor or major project
report/dissertation while doing his /her NTCC course as
per the prescribed guidelines.
• The students will submit draft report to the guide for
guidance. This submission will help students for making
necessary changes in final report as suggested by the
guide.

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SUBMISSION OF FINAL REPORT/
TERM PAPER
• Students will submit the final report as per following time
lines and formats:
• Draft of SIP reports should be submitted to Coordinator/
Supervisor for corrections. After the thorough checking, the
final report should be submitted with the certificate of HoI
within two weeks after the commencement of new
semester.
• A student will be eligible to submit his/her report and final
assessment provided he/she meets following conditions:
• Approval of topic, Synopsis by the guide.
• 90 % of WPR were submitted.
• 80% of the WPR were satisfactory.

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TERM PAPER SCHEDULE

Date Task Responsibility

Guides Finalized Guide Finalization CC / PC

6th April Topic Finalization Mentors/Students

17th April Abstract Submission Students

16th July Final Submission of Report Students

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