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Writing the Research Report
The Introduction
❖ Purpose
❖ Scope
❖ Background
Purpose❖ What did your research discover
or prove?
❖ What kind of problem did you work on?
❖ Why did you work on this problem?
❖ Why are you writing this report?
❖ What should the reader know or understand at the end?
Scope
❖ How did you work on the research problem?
❖ Why did you work on the problem the way you did?
❖ Where there other obvious approaches that you didn’t take?
❖ What factors contributed to the way you worked on this problem?
Background❖ What facts does the reader need to
know to follow the discussion?
❖ Why was the project assigned or authorized?
❖ Who has done previous work on this problem?
❖ What will the reader already know? What will you need to tell them so they understand the significance?
Methods
❖ How was research designed?
❖ On what subjects was research performed?
❖ How were the subjects selected?
❖ How did you record the data?
Results: Presenting Data
❖ Present what you discovered
❖ Clear & logical
❖ Use figures or tables (if appropriate)
Results: Interpretation of Data❖ Begin with a discussion
of the data
❖ Generalize about or analyze the data
❖ Consider how the data addresses the research problem (identified in introduction)
❖ Discuss what can be inferred... what does the data mean?
Recommendations
❖ What needs to be done?
❖ No new info - rely on what you presented in results section.
Conclusions❖ Keep it short.
❖ No new ideas
❖ Convey significance and meaning one more time.
❖ Could raise unanswered questions or point to additional information needed.