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?