3. Requirements to layout and typing

3.1. How large a coursework should be?

A coursework should not be less than 20 and more than 25 pages. Enumeration starts from the Title page though the figure 1 is not printed on the Title page. Appendices can be in excess of the upper limit of 25 pages.

A bit of simple arithmetics will be helpful in organising the text. Let us make a focus on the text main body, assuming that each other part of the project takes 1-2 pages. Please, mind that each part starts from a new page.

How large should the text main body be? If the Introduction and Conclusion take one page each (the minimum), then

Title + Contents + Introduction + Conclusion + Endnotes +Bibliography = 6 pages.

So, the text main body is 14-19 pages (20-6=14, 25-6=19).

If the Introduction and Conclusion take 2 pages each, then the text main body is 12-17 pages.

Now, assume there are three chapters in the main body. Correspondingly, a chapter should be about 3-6 pages.

It is easy to plan that a paragraph (a subunit) should be about 1-2 pages.

Please, do not forget to attach a blank page for superviser’s comments.

3.2. Text organisation

The text should be organised in accordance with the Contents.The titles in the table of contents and in the text are to be the same. Titles hierarchy should be used to show the subordinance of the parts to the whole. For example, the Title of the project (on the front page) is made in font 16 (bold), titles of the chapters (in the main text) - in font 14(bold), titles of the subunits (in the main text) - font 12-13(bold). In the table of contents the font for units and subunits can be the same.

The word “chapter” can be written or omitted. So, the chapter name can look either like:

Chapter 2. Labour Motivation at Company X; or like:

2. Labour Motivation at Company X.

Be sure that each structural part starts from a new page. Subunits (paragraphs) can go in continuation one after another on the same page.

3.3. Tables, graphs, schemes, drawings

A coursework may include statistical tables, different drawings and logical schemes. If the illustrative material is too extensive, it is better to locate at least some part of it in the Appendices. Only the most important and persuasive illustrations should be kept in the text main body.

Wherever the illustration is located, it should be titled, enumerated, and referenced (source of information should be given).

For example: “Table 1.Unemployment in Russia in 2000-2006 (in thous.)”; “Fig.3. Labour demand by an individual firm”.

Table name should be given above the table; figure name is generally given below the drawing.

A table or a graph should be located as closely as possible to its first mention in the text. Relate the illustration to the text by referring to it by figure number, e.g.: “As can be seen in table 1, unemployment in Russia decreased since 2000”.

An illustration should never precede its first text mention. Neither can it be located in the very end of a unit (subunit) with no text afterwards. Any illustration requires: an introduction which explains its necessity; comments which explain what it is about; a conclusion.