Profitability, problems, and simplicity of the exportation of poblano pepper, jalapeño pepper and roma tomato from Mexico to the United States of America

THE CONTENT OF THE GRADUATING PROJECT

The main body of the text of each chapter or paragraph must contain descriptive elements using sub-chapters or sub-paragraphs.
Your graduating project typically will include the following:

Introduction
Review of business context and theoretical background
Methodology
Results & analysis
Conclusions and recommendations
Limitations
Confidentiality

INTRODUCTION

If, as is hopefully the case, your project is directly linked to a company in which you are doing your internship, a presentation of the company and its operations is necessary. This should be as background to the following section.

A clearly-identified investigative problem/question that you are going to answer together with an explanation of how you are going to address it (i.e. the outline structure of what is to follow).

A REVIEW OF THE BUSINESS CONTEXT & THEORETICAL BACKGROUND

This will be based principally upon what is conventionally called a “literature review” of authoritative published writings.

This will provide the context and the justification for your study and should focus on the principal contributions to knowledge in the chosen area, different methodological approaches to this area and how your own investigation relates to these.
For this section in particular, you must be very careful about the risk of plagiarism.
Summarizing and analyzing existing sources does not mean copying all or part of a text or just pasting different extracts end to end. Your sources have to be clearly indicated in the body of the text then also grouped in the list of references at the end of your work, in alphabetic order according to the author's name.
(cf "list of references" of this document)

METHODOLOGY

This part should present the approaches and methodologies that will be used in your Graduating Project with, of course, an explanation of why you chose one methodology/approach rather than another. 

What is your plan of action? How did you decide to do what you are doing? What are the main stages? Why? Why this methodology? What are the constraints/limitations of your approach?

You should explain why and how you proceeded in a logical fashion in order to enable the reader who has not participated in the process to understand what is happening. In other words, tell it as if it were a story. What problems did you encounter? How did you overcome them?

RESULTS OBTAINED AND ANALYSIS

Tell us what you found out – what the results of your investigation were and what you think they tell us in relation to the original problem you set out to study and also to knowledge of the area in general.

You should only include pertinent results in this chapter. If you think the data you obtained might be of use to someone else you can always put it in the appendices. Present your data in an attractive, clear and logical manner; remember, graphs, tables and diagrams are usually easier and quicker to understand. 
All tables/graph illustrations have to be numbered with a title, and grouped in a list of tables at the beginning of your report with the reference page.

CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Analysis and argumentation

This part of the graduating project must enable the corrector and reader to judge your capacities and your ability to discuss and argue. We will look for evidence of your ability to re-evaluate your own ideas and the ideas expressed by others.

Be careful! This is often the most neglected part in reports and dissertations. In a graduating project, it is VITAL to thoroughly develop this part.

The objective of this part is to demonstrate your understanding of what you have done and the meaning of what you have done. You must be able to be self-critical about your work on the graduating project, focusing on your strengths and weaknesses, the specificities and the implications or possible generalizations. You will also be expected to demonstrate that you have understood and integrated what you have learned in the courses on your MSc.

You should demonstrate how your findings relate to the problem/questions(s) you initially set yourself, how they relate to relevant theory and concepts and what recommendations for the company/companies in general this leads you to make.

LIMITATIONS

No-one expects a perfect project in a limited time. There will always be questions that you have either not been able to answer or have only answered imperfectly. It shows that your investigation is worth taking further. 

This should emerge from a comparative study of the objectives you fixed for yourself and the objectives actually reached, unplanned developments that appeared during the writing of your graduating project, or “unusual” results which seem difficult to explain or to justify and which merit further research.
In this section, you should consider what you would have done if you had had more time or greater means. Your final chapter therefore should clearly explain the limitations of your work.