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How to Write a SIWES Report for DOU

SIWES and IT report structure, formatting, and chapter breakdown expected at DOU -- built from your real placement and logbook, formatted to submission-ready.

Typical SIWES report structure

The common Nigerian-university SIWES/IT report shape. UniDraft adjusts this to your department’s specific requirements when they’re on file.

  • Chapter 1Introduction & organization profile
  • Chapter 2Industrial training experience & duties
  • Chapter 3Technical / theoretical knowledge gained
  • Chapter 4Challenges & problems encountered
  • Chapter 5Conclusion & recommendations

DOU SIWES formatting

Fonts, spacing, and reference style for the SIWES/IT report document type at DOU.

  • General guidance

    IT / SIWES Report

    Industrial training and SIWES report documentation.

    • Body fontTimes New Roman, 12pt
    • Line spacing1.5 lines
    • Reference styleAPA (most common)

    General Nigerian university convention -- until your exact department template is added, UniDraft applies your supervisor’s and department’s specific instructions on top of this baseline.

SIWES by department type at DOU

DOU has 86 departments in UniDraft’s catalog. These are general notes for each type of department, not DOU rules; your SIWES unit and supervisor decide.

Management and social sciences

25 departments listed: Agribusiness, Philosophy (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics), Criminology and Security Studies, Economics and others.

Logbook: Record the departments you worked in, the tasks, the documents or systems you handled and the people you reported to each week.

Report: Describe how the organisation is structured and how your tasks fit into its operations, linking what you saw to what you studied.

Related reading: the accounting and business SIWES report guide and how to design a questionnaire.

Natural and physical sciences

21 departments listed: Home Science, Library and Information Science, Political Science, Environmental Management and others.

Logbook: Record the laboratory or field procedures you carried out, the samples or instruments involved, and the safety rules you followed, in your own words.

Report: Describe each procedure with its purpose and your observations, and format units, formulas and species names carefully.

Related reading: formatting chemical formulas and species names and choosing a statistical test.

Health and medical sciences

12 departments listed: Environmental Health Science, Health Information Management, Healthcare Administration and Hospital Management, Human Anatomy and others.

Logbook: Record the units or wards you rotated through and the duties you were allowed to perform under supervision, without including any patient-identifying details.

Report: Describe the placement, your supervised duties and what you learnt, and confirm with your department how clinical or community placements are reported.

Related reading: seminar topics for nursing and public health students and validity and reliability of questionnaires.

Arts, humanities and law

8 departments listed: Creative Arts (Visual Arts, Music, Theatre Arts), English and Literary Studies, French, History, Strategic and International Studies and others.

Logbook: Record the organisation, the writing, research, editing, production or legal tasks you handled, and the sources or materials you worked with.

Report: Explain how your placement tasks apply what you studied, and keep any confidential client or case information out of the report.

Related reading: how to write the literature review and how to write the references list.

Faculties & departments at DOU

Your department’s specific SIWES rules -- where on file -- take priority over the general structure above.

  • Faculty of Agriculture

    • Agribusiness
    • Agricultural Economics
    • Agricultural Extension and Rural Development
    • Animal Science and Production
    • Crop Science and Farm Management
    • Fisheries and Aquaculture
    • Home Science
    • Soil and Land Resource Management

  • Faculty of Allied Health Sciences

    • Environmental Health Science
    • Health Information Management
    • Healthcare Administration and Hospital Management
    • Human Anatomy
    • Human Nutrition and Dietetics
    • Human Physiology
    • Medical Lab Science
    • Nursing Science
    • Optometry
    • Pharmacology
    • Public Health

  • Faculty of Arts

    • Creative Arts (Visual Arts, Music, Theatre Arts)
    • English and Literary Studies
    • French
    • History, Strategic and International Studies
    • Philosophy (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics)
    • Religious Studies

  • Faculty of Behavioural Sciences

    • Criminology and Security Studies
    • Economics
    • Film and Multi-Media Studies
    • International Relations
    • Journalism and Media Studies
    • Library and Information Science
    • Mass Communication
    • Peace and Conflict Resolution
    • Political Science
    • Psychology
    • Public Administration
    • Sociology

  • Faculty of Computing

    • Computer Science
    • Cyber Security
    • Data Science
    • Information Technology
    • Software Engineering

  • Faculty of Environmental Sciences

    • Architecture
    • Building
    • Environmental Management
    • Estate Management
    • Fine and Applied Arts
    • Geography
    • Industrial Design
    • Quantity Surveying
    • Surveying and Geo-Informatics
    • Urban and Regional Planning

  • Faculty of Law

    • Law

  • Faculty of Management Sciences

    • Accounting
    • Actuarial Science
    • Aviation Management
    • Banking and Finance
    • Business Information Management
    • Business Management
    • Employment Relations and Human Resource Management
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Finance
    • Hospitality and Tourism Studies
    • Insurance
    • Management
    • Marketing
    • Petroleum Information Management
    • Transport Management

  • Faculty of Science

    • Animal and Environmental Biology (AEB)
    • Applied Geophysics
    • Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
    • Biotechnology
    • Chemistry
    • Environmental Management and Toxicology
    • Geology
    • Geology and Mining
    • Industrial Chemistry
    • Industrial Mathematics
    • Marine Science
    • Mathematics
    • Medical Physics
    • Microbiology
    • Physics
    • Physics with Electronics
    • Plant Science and Biotechnology
    • Statistics

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Frequently asked questions

What chapters does a DOU SIWES report need?

Most Nigerian SIWES/IT reports follow a similar structure: an introduction to the organization, a chapter covering the industrial training experience and duties performed, a chapter of technical/theoretical knowledge gained, and a conclusion with recommendations -- built around your actual logbook entries, not invented ones. Your department may adjust this exact breakdown.

What formatting does DOU expect for a SIWES report?

DOU's exact SIWES format isn't in our catalog yet, so the specifics above are the general Nigerian tertiary-institution convention (Times New Roman 12pt, 1.5 spacing, APA references). UniDraft still applies your supervisor's and department's specific instructions when you write with us.

Can UniDraft use my actual SIWES logbook and placement details?

Yes -- bring your real placement organization, duties, and logbook notes. UniDraft builds the report around what you actually did; it does not invent industrial training experience you didn't have.

Is this different from a final year project for DOU?

Yes. A SIWES/IT report documents your industrial training placement, while a final year project is an independent research report. See the general DOU format guide for the full project and seminar report breakdown.