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Writing The Report Survey

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Writing The Report Survey

Here are nondiscriminatory rewrites: 1. The interviewers were office staff from Makati. 2. Maria is a 13-year-old person who is deaf and non-speaking. 3. The survey respondents were 50 doctors, 50 doctors who are women, 50 police officers and 50 police officers who are women.

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WRITING THE REPORT

SURVEY/ FIELD REPORT


LABORATORY/ SCIENTIFIC
TECHNICAL REPORT
CONTENT STANDARD

The learner understands


the principles and uses of
surveys, experiments and
scientific observations
PERFORMANCE STANDARD

The learner
produces a well-
written report for
various disciplines
LEARNING COMPETENCIES
 The learner…
 1. determines the objectives and structures of various kinds of
reports
 2. designs, tests and revises survey questionnaires*
 3. conducts surveys, experiments or observations*
 4. gathers information from surveys, experiments, or observations*
 5. disseminates written forms of information from surveys,
experiments or observations*
 6. summarizes findings and executes the report through narrative
and visual/graphic forms
 7. writes various reports
 To survive and thrive in the knowledge
Age, you are expected to know how to
access, process, and prepare information
to accomplish your various personal and
processional objectives. If not for any
reason, but for personal development,
and “in the loop” you should know how to
read and prepare different kinds of
reports.
 Knowing how to prepare these reports,
enhances your ability to organize
logically and present clearly your data
and insights. You will appreciate this skill
more when you are looking for a job
after graduation because this is a basic
requirement in all kinds of workplaces.
 On the other hand, knowing how to
read these reports helps develop the
skill of information processing, which
is vital not only to learning but also to
succeeding in this globalized world
where there is always flood of
information flooding your way.
LESSON 1 – Basic Report Writing
Principles
A written report is a clear,
objective and orderly presentation
of the details of a research
investigation or an assigned
activity. There are different kinds
of reports, but they all share
some common qualities and parts.
The value of reports

Reports are expected and


common requirements in school.
But do you know that when you
become professional, you will
also be writing reports?
Written reports have

different purposes in the


academe and
professional worlds.
Writing Style for reports

1. Concise writing – means


efficient writing. Your text should
state an idea with the least
number of words without affecting
meaning. This means editing your
report in order to cut unnecessary
words and shorten expressions.
2. Clear writing :

Means writing that transmits to the


reader the exact idea that you have
in mind. Ideas are clear if they have
expressed in concrete terms. Concrete
means something that can be
perceived; its opposite is abstract,
something that cannot be perceived.
3. Objective writing:

Means writing that is free of


emotionally loaded or based
words so that report
appears neutral or factual.
4. Non-discriminatory writing

 Refers to writing that treats all


people equally and with respect.
Be careful to use non-
discriminatory language when
referring to gender, age and
disability.
Parts of a report:
Prefatory elements
 Title page

 Abstract or Executive Summary

Report proper
1. Introduction
2. Procedures
3. Results and Discussion
4. Conclusion
5. Appendix
6. References
Introduction:
 The purpose of the introduction in general is to
present the objectives of the report. Depending on
whether is a school or professional assignment. The
readers and what they need to see in the
introduction varies.
a. Brief discussion of relevant theories
b. Purpose of the study
Procedures
 The Procedures section details the actions done, and
as applicable, the materials involved in order to
fulfill the purpose of the report.
 In academic reports, the procedures serves as an
important means of evaluating the validity of the
study. Thus, the writers should include enough details
for readers to determine the validity of the results
and conclusions, and for other scientists to be able
to repeat the procedures and other scientists to be
able to repeat the procedures.
Procedures

 The Procedures section is usually


written in past tense. Depending on
your reader’s preference, this maybe
presented as a narrative in
paragraph form, or as a list of
chronological steps, if listed, it is
suggested that you write the steps in
complete sentences.
Results and Discussion

The Results and Discussion


section as they sometime be
separate units); presents the
findings resulting that resulted
from the procedures
performed.
Conclusion

 Depending on the report


assigned, the conclusion may
contain any one or all of the
following:
- a recap of the key findings
- a final answer to the main
question raised in the introduction
Prefatory elements
 TITLE PAGE
- school
- The report title
- The names of the person who conducted the
experiment, strand
- Name of the person to whom the report is submitted

- SY
Prefatory elements
 ABSTRACT
Like the title page, the abstract is found in the
beginning but is written last. This section
summarizes your report by reducing it to the
most essential ideas, namely:
1. the purpose/ objective of the report
2. The procedures done
3. The results
4. The conclusion
 The abstract condenses all of the above, so that a
busy person can easily understand the most
important aspects of the report without reading
the entire text. While lengths may vary, a
maximum of 250 words (including articles) will be
good length for the abstract.
 Ideas 1,3,4 above are written in the present tense,
since they refer to the ideas in your report.
Number 2, on the other hand, takes the past tense
since you are reporting past tense.
Run -through
 Reports are objective and orderly written documents
that present the details of a research investigation or
an assigned activity. They are important both in the
academic and professional worlds.
 A report is written in a concise, clear, objective
language.
 While variations exist, reports usually contain the ff.
elements
 Prefatory – title, abstract
 report proper – intro, procedures, results and discussion,
conclusion
QUIZ
Rewrite the ff. sentences to make them
concrete.
 1. I learned a lot from my practicum in
Company Y.
 2. Few of the respondents reported
knowing about the DOH campaign on TB
screening.
 3. A small amount of magnesium was

added to the salt solution


Rewrite the ff. sentences to make them
nondiscriminatory.
 1. The interviewers were office girls from
Makati.
 2. Maria is 13-year-old deaf-mute.

 3. The survey respondents were 50

doctors, 50 women doctors, 50 policemen


and 50 policewomen.
Rewrite the ff. sentences to make them
nondiscriminatory.
 1. The interviewers were office girls from
Makati.
 2. Maria is 13-year-old deaf-mute.

 3. The survey respondents were 50

doctors, 50 women doctors, 50 policemen


and 50 policewomen.

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