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ECEG-4211 Data Communication and Computer Networks Assignment and Laboratory Report Writing Format

This document provides guidelines for writing assignment and laboratory reports for an ECEG-4211 Data Communication and Computer Networks course. It outlines the basic structure and formatting for reports, including using a title page, summary, table of contents, body, conclusions, and references sections. For laboratory reports specifically, it describes including an introduction/purpose, materials/equipment, methods/procedure, discussion/analysis, and conclusions sections. Key guidelines are to use readable fonts, 1.5 or double spacing, consistent formatting, and to clearly label tables and figures.

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ECEG-4211 Data Communication and Computer Networks Assignment and Laboratory Report Writing Format

This document provides guidelines for writing assignment and laboratory reports for an ECEG-4211 Data Communication and Computer Networks course. It outlines the basic structure and formatting for reports, including using a title page, summary, table of contents, body, conclusions, and references sections. For laboratory reports specifically, it describes including an introduction/purpose, materials/equipment, methods/procedure, discussion/analysis, and conclusions sections. Key guidelines are to use readable fonts, 1.5 or double spacing, consistent formatting, and to clearly label tables and figures.

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ECEG-4211 Data Communication and

Computer Networks
Assignment and Laboratory Report Writing
Format
Bethelhem Seifu ([email protected])
September 2019

A tutorial assignment and lab experiment is only as good as the report


that describes it. Written reports are an essential part of all courses and
usually a significant part of your grade.

Basic structure and general formatting guide-


lines of submitted assignments
You may submit different assignments on this course and the sections you
decide to include will depend on the type of assignment and the specific topic.
However, in most cases the following key components should be included and
these general formatting guidelines should be followed [1].

Basic structure
• Title page: The title of the report should indicate exactly what the
assignment is about.

• Summary: This provides a brief overview of the substance of the


assignment.

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• Table of contents: If applicable to assignment you are submitting,
you use this to set out the sections and subsections of the assignment
and their corresponding page numbers.

• Body of the assignment

• Conclusions: If applicable to assignment you are submitting, you use


this section to sum up the key points of your work.

• References: All information, methods, data, diagrams and maps,


whether obtained or based on the work of others, must be acknowl-
edged. If applicable to assignment you are submitting, you use this
section based on one of the referencing styles recommended for engi-
neering.

General formatting guidelines


Fonts
• Use a clear, readable, sans serif font such as Verdana, Calibri, Tahoma
or Arial, and be consistent and use the same font throughout.

• Use black text on a white background. Avoid coloured backgrounds.

• Use 11 or 12 point for the body of your assignment.

Spacing
• Use 1.5 or double spacing and fairly wide margins. This leaves room
for the marker’s comments.

• Leave a blank line between paragraphs.

• If the questions are short, leave a blank line between each question. If
they are long, start each question on a new page.

• Justify (distribute your text evenly between the margins).

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Headings
• Use bold for headings and subheadings. Not underlining or italics.

• Use font sizes greater than the font size you used for the body of your
assignment.

Numbering
• Number all pages except the title page.

• Tables and figures must be numbered and clearly labelled. Table cap-
tions are placed above the table, while captions for a figures go below
the figure.

Referencing
• The reference list comes at the end of the assignment, and should start
on a new page labelled ’References’.

• You should follow the IEEE Reference style.

Laboratory Report Format [2]


A lab report is how you explain what you did in experiment, what you
learned, and what the results meant. You should not simply restate what is
already written in the handout. It is important to use appropriate citations
when referring to handouts or other materials.
Any submitted report should have to be written in this format for each
experiment requiring a formal lab report. The report should contain the
following sections:

1 Title Page
It would be a single page that states:

• Name of the institute and department

• The course’s name

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• The title of the experiment.

• Your name and ID

• Your instructor’s name

• The date the lab was performed or the date the report was submitted.

2 Introduction/Purpose
The introduction includes background information, as well as a description
of how this work fits into the contexts of the discussions before the starting
of the lab sessions. It also includes a brief description of the principles that
underlie the experiment.

3 Materials/Components and Equipment


List everything needed to complete your experiment. Example:

• Matlab software 2018a

• Cisco Packet tracer V 7.1 and etc.

4 Methods/Procedure
In this section, the details of the way the simulation was performed, how
the equipment were configured, the way the data was collected, etc., are
described. Describe the steps you completed during your investigation for
each scenario situation given in the lab questions. Simulation data obtained
from your procedure usually is presented as a table (if possible). It may be
helpful to provide a figure or a screen shot to diagram your experimental
setup.

5 Discussion or Analysis
In this section, questions that are based your simulation/ lab experiments are
to be answered. This is used to demonstrate the significance of the results,

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and to explain why they are or are not consistent with those that would be
expected from theory and analysis.

• Discuss the significance, or meaning, of the results.

• Discuss discrepancies between theoretical and experimental results, and


their likely causes.

• How do your results relate to your experimental objective(s)?

• Discuss any difficulties encountered in performing the laboratory, what


were their sources?

• Discuss any difficulties encountered in performing the laboratory, what


were their sources?

• How might they be avoided in future experiments?

6 Conclusions
The purpose of this section is to wrap up the lab and summarize what was re-
ported. It is also a place to make suggestions for future improvements. Most
of the time the conclusion is a single paragraph that sums up what hap-
pened in the experiment, whether your hypothesis was accepted or rejected,
and what this means.

References
[1] Writing an engineering technical report. https://
www.monash.edu/rlo/assignment-samples/engineering/
eng-writing-technical-reports. Accessed: 2019-09-27.

[2] Yonas Yehualaeshet. Telecom networks lab 1: Laboratory report writing


format. 2019.

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