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As an appendix in the human body, the appendix to the text is an essential part of any student assignment. This additional section of the work can contain a pointer, advanced information about the individual materials on the topic, conclusions about the materials, which are published in the main text, description of the research methodology, and so on.
The formatting of most educational projects finishes with the appendix. Typically, appendices are inserted at the end of the work, after the bibliography. After appendix, there shouldn’t be any other chapters in the course work.
What is represented by an appendix? Appendix is documents, charts, tables, which occupy a large volume, but carry important informational component. Due to the large number of pages in the work, it is inappropriate to place appendices in the text.
In addition, there is information that can’t be inserted in the main body, for example, balance sheets, quality certificates, references, statistics, etc.
There are no specific requirements regarding how to write an appendix and their formatting. It is only important to consider the following nuances:
Many students ignore appendices, because they don’t know how to write an appendix. But this is a big mistake. Appendix can help you can reflect a lot of useful and interesting information that will allow the professor to conclude that the student worked hard over the implementation of practical sections of the course work.
Before you start making appendices look through a few books in order to see how to write an appendix and how to format it. Explore the works written in your subject, or study applications in the books on various topics. Pay attention to what information is included in the application and how it is interconnected with the main text. Can you find the typical contents, repeated in different applications?
Once again look at the task. If you are given a specific topic, this is done with a purpose. Remember why you are writing this project, and by whom it was entrusted (you can ask this person for guidance).
Think about the main purpose of the appendix. What do you want to say in addition to the ideas presented in the main text?
Take into account the audience. Who will be reading the appendix? Will your reader gain valuable experience that can broaden the understanding of the main theme of your work? Will the appendix be a useful tool for reading or using your work?
Find out the opinion of an outsider. Describe the main theme of your coursework of diploma to someone and the content of the appendix to see whether it seems reasonable.
Collect the information that needs to be included in the appendix.
Evaluate the relevance of the data. If the information is relevant to the subject, isn’t it better to include it in the main text in the form of a separate chapter? You may want to opt out of certain information if the connection to the main topic is poorly observed. The application (one or more) should include text-related data, which reveal specific topics more or are a good complement for the work with the main material.
Organize information using the general rules of the organization. Use tables, graphs, and charts for numerical data. Structure your text using subtitles, chapters, and paragraphs.
If the information covers various unrelated topics, it is better to break it up into multiple applications to facilitate the work with additional data.
After that you can start writing the appendix. This step depends on the data format to be included. A header should be placed for digital data, after that you can insert tables with data. If it is a text, it should be broken into paragraphs as plain text.
The title should indicate “ANNEX __” and the serial number of the appendix. This text should be in bold and centered at the top of the page.
Each appendix starts with a separate page, at the beginning of which there is a specified name.
Check the text of the annex for grammatical, stylistic, and other errors, and only then insert it in the text and print your work.
Confirm the basic work with clear and balanced conclusions, placing them in the form of the annex. Do not assume that a reader is certainly going to read the annex, and don’t persuade him or her to do so. If you feel that the text of the appendix is strongly associated with the theme of the work, insert this annex in the main text (in the form of chapters, epilogue, conclusions, or any other section).
The appendix is a supplement, but it does not mean that it can be treated superficially. Although the main efforts should be directed to the disclosure of the main theme, don’t put off the writing of the annex to the very last moment, when it can be very easy to make a mistake in a rush or make a bad annex.
To get an excellent grade for your coursework, your research paper must be perfectly executed and formatted from a cover page to the annex. In order to get excellent results, it is necessary far ahead before writing a term paper to learn all requirements to the formatting of a document, which are usually set by a professor of the university department, where your research paper will be defended.
As it was mentioned above, annexes are the final part of any research work, so save your time and effort to correctly format this mandatory section of your paper. Perhaps, appendices are not the most important part of the course work, but if you have enough of them, it indicates that you have picked so much information on the subject that some of it had to be inserted beyond the main text of the work. In addition, there are materials that are simply can’t be inserted in the main text of the work, for example, photographs, newspaper clippings, engineering plans, balance sheets, etc. What kind of documents should be placed in the “ANNEX” section?
Annexes can be compulsory and informational that explain or prove the research with additional data, Such annexes can be used for reference purposes. That is the ANNEX section can contain tables, charts, drawings, schemes, which occupy more than 2/3 of the sheet. In this section you can also insert copies of the documents, certificates, to make the research more convincing. You can add additional information that is very relevant to the topic, but didn’t fit in the main text of the work. There are no strict rules on what materials should be in the ANNEX section, it will all depend on the research topic. In any case, there should be no less than two annexes in order for the project to be professional.
There are a few rules of placement and formatting of appendices:
These basic rules on how to write an appendix must be taken into account when making the section of annexes.