10Oct 2017

GUIDELINES FOR WRITING RESEARCH REPORTS.

  • The University of Iringa.
  • The Open University of Tanzania.
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Nowadays many University students in Tanzania are facing challenges in writing their research reports, be it in government or private Universities. Specifically, students encounter problems in writing and formulating background of the study, statement of the problem, study objectives, literature review and research methodology. Their failure in these preceding chapters, leads to failure in data analysis and presentation, hence shortfalls in discussion and conclusion chapters. Methodologically, the article reviewed some scholarly studies conducted in Tanzania to substantiate the problem and indicate examples on how best the research reports can be written. Apart from narrations given, the article indicates examples with the aim of helping both junior and senior researchers to organize well their research reports in a manner of aligning ideas and chapters within the report. The article will as well help both undergraduate and postgraduate students whose programmes require researches in fulfillment of the requirement, for the award of their particular degrees.

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[Elick Mtandi, Bukaza Chachage and Falres Ilomo. (2017); GUIDELINES FOR WRITING RESEARCH REPORTS. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Oct). 102-123] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/5512      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/5512

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