This document outlines the steps and guidelines for writing an effective research report. It discusses analyzing the subject matter, creating an outline, drafting the report, and rewriting. It also covers formatting the bibliography, writing the final draft, and including preliminary pages, the main text with an introduction and findings, and end materials like appendices and bibliography. Finally, it provides precautions like maintaining reader interest, avoiding jargon, ensuring availability and understandability of findings, and including sources consulted.

1. RESEARCH
METHODOLOGY
Report Writing

2. Significance of Report writing

3. Steps involved in writing a
Report…
 Logical analysis of the subject matter
 Preparation of the final outline
 Preparation of the rough draft
 Rewriting and polishing of the rough draft

4. …Steps involved in writing a
Report…
 Preparation of the
final bibliography
 For books and
pamphlets
 Name of the author,
last name first
 Title, underlined to
indicate italics
 Place, publisher, and
date of publication
 Number of volumes
 For magazines and
newspapers
 Name of the author,
last name first
 Title of article, in
quotation marks
 Name of periodical,
underlined to indicate
italics
 The volume or volume
and number
 The date of the issue
 The pagination

5. …Steps involved in writing a
Report
 Writing the final draft

6. Layout of the Research Report
A. Preliminary Pages
A. Title and Date
B. Acknowledgments
C. Table of Contents
D. List of Tables
B. Main Text
A. Introduction
B. Statement of Findings and Recommendations
C. Results
D. Implications of the Results
E. Summary
C. End Matter
A. Appendices
B. Bibliography

7. Precautions for writing Research
Reports…
 Long enough to cover the subject but short
enough to maintain interest
 Technical jargons should be avoided
 Ready availability of the findings
 Should be free from grammatical mistakes

8. … Precautions for writing
Research Reports
 Should show originality and should necessarily
be an attempt to solve some intellectual
problem
 Bibliography of sources consulted is a must
 Report must be attractive in appearance, neat
and clean