What are the five steps to writing a report?

Answer 1

introduction, body, conclusion

Answer 2

It can be assumed that the questioner is asking about the five steps of the writing process. These are:

1. Prewrite - discover what you want to write about.
2. Draft - begin writing down your ideas and basic research.
3. Revise - order your writing in a logical manner.
4. Proofread - read your paper and identify those elements of grammar, syntax, and punctuation that need improvement, and make thsoe improvements.
5. Publish - present your work to your intended audience

This is a tool, a very artificial tool. All of these things should be done, but to drive students into this mold does them a disservice.

Writing is a natural thing. It is an extension of speaking that every person does. It is refined communication and nothing more. Yes, it can be a more efficient means of communicating large amounts of information. Yes, it can be a valuable storage method. but, writing is far more than its parts, or even the sum of its parts. Writing is the creation of a living thing. It is a connection made between the author and the audience. It is the birth of new meaning and understanding.

An assigned report can be the formulaic script that many teachers expect, and simultaneously hate, or it can be a true expression of the writer. You do this already every day. When you get up in the morning and talk to your parents over the breakfast table, you are doing it. When you meet your friends at school, you are doing it. When you raise your hand in the classroom, you are doing it. When you hang out on the street, when you order food at McDonalds, when you text that girl or guy you like and tell them what they mean to, in all of this you are doing it. It is alive in you, it is part of you, it is who you are and how you share that.

Think about it this way: you the writer have the opportunity to share with someone else in a way that cannot be accomplished in any other manner. You can reach for that spiritual connection that no other means of communication can offer. You have the opportunity to speak to your audience without the fear of interruption. While your audience reads your writing, nothing in the world exists but what you wrote, and the meaning they make with it.

You can choose to take the five steps of the writing process, or you can put words on paper, and craft it into what you want it say. I'm not saying don't make use of the tool (the writing process), just don't make the mistake of letting it define you in your writing.

Be organic. Do what you already know so well how to do.

Answer 3

A Proper Research Report should have following parts:

Title Page, Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Literature Review, Discussion & Analysis, Conclusions, References (Works Cited).

Answer 4

Some different types of business reports are: market research reports, marketing reports, technical reports, progress reports, financial reports, audit report, test report, medical report, annual general meeting report, appraisal report, medical report, technical report, laboratory report, quality testing report, and project report.

Answer 5

1. Abstract - 250 words briefly describing your project (what you did, why and what you found out)
2. Introduction and aims - shows appreciation of current literature, the reasoning behind your work and note what you intend to acheive and why
3. Materials and methods - Methodology in sufficient detail, so that it could be repeated
4. Results - Data present in one form (table/graph/diagram, using +/- standard error of the mean) Figures should have a figure legend, providing the basic information you need to understand it. Define any statistical analysis etc
5. Anaylsis - only use if appropriate - shows the application of any statistics
6. Disscussion and conclusion - analyse all data, giving reasons for your results. Be subjective, and say why something may or may not have happened. Keep the conclusion short and relate it to the aims
7. References - everything should be referenced, to ensure copyright laws are not breached (commonly Harvard Referencing is used)
8. Appendix - for any 'raw data'

Answer 6

title

body

research

conclusion

reference