What are the Basics of Report Writing?
Report writing is one of the most important skills that a kid should learn for their professional growth. It is so because this skill comes in handy when you have to submit reports related to various data and situations at your workplace. Thus, report writing is an integral part of our curriculum. So before going any further, let us understand what a report is and the basics of report writing.
What is a report?
A report can be defined as a nonfiction account that talks about various facts that have been collected related to an issue, a topic, or an event particular in nature. Everything a person needs to know about any situation can be summarized in a report to make it easy for the people to understand what all took place or what is important in that particular instance. The main purpose of writing a report is to make it easy for people to catch up on everything that happened on a subject or around it. It is basically a summary of what took place and how.
When do people need to write a report?
· To mention the details of a situation or an event
· Evaluate analytics of statistical data
· Collect various interpretations from the information
· The consequences of an event or a situation
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Before going any further, let us dwell on the various types of report writing.
There are mainly three types of reports that are relevant. You can read all about them down below:
· Academic Reports: Academic reports can be defined as a comprehension prepared by a student based on books, historical events, biographies, or any other project that they have been given in their classes.
· Business Reports: Business reports can be defined as the reports that summarize useful business data, which can be helpful in the analysis and evaluation of other information such as SWOT analysis, marketing reports, business strategies, and feasibility evaluation.
· Scientific Reports: Scientific reports can be defined as reports based on certain findings that have been concluded after several experiments and data collection. They are mostly used for research papers, case studies and are published in various science books and journals.
Now that we have all the basics related to what a report is and the various types of reports, you can now go ahead and learn all about the structure of a report.
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What is the Structure of a Report?
The structure of a report is divided into four parts:
Executive Summary: Executive summary is like an abstract which can also be called the gist of the entire report that you will cover. It includes various findings and is normally used in scientific and academic reports.
Introduction: The second part of the report is the introduction, in which you talk about the topic that you are going to cover further. In this part, you need to talk about and discuss your report's thesis statement and any background information that the person reading your report may require.
Body: The third part of the report is the body. This is the main part of the content in which we have to talk about the findings of the report and include all the data you have collected regarding the particular topic. This part can be divided into various sections with different headings and subheadings to make it easier for the reader to understand what is being discussed. The information is broken down into various paragraphs in the report.
Conclusion: The last part of the report is the conclusion. It should talk about the major interpretation and judgement that can be derived from the report at the end. Here the student can also include their own opinions and inferences of what they have learnt after the final report has been drafted. This is one of the most important parts of the report because the reader eventually understands the gist of the report's findings from this section only.
This is how you can structure a report. Once you read all about it, we are sure you would want your child to enroll in the classes here! Along with that, you also need to learn all the other things you should include in a report when you are writing one here at Planet Spark.
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What is to be included in a Report?
Here are some of the ingredients of a report:
· Table of Content: The reader can directly go to the topic and the page they want to see and refer to it.
· Page Numbering: If you have written a long report, they can directly skip to the page they are interested in and see whatever they want to in the report prepared.
· Headings and Subheadings: The reader knows what the next information set is about. Without the heading, the data becomes very hard to read and understand.
· Citations are also very important to be included in a report. The reader needs to know from where you have picked up the data and your source of research.
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