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Chapter Two-Technical Report Writing

This document discusses formatting technical reports with headings, chapters and sections. It notes that headings provide an organizational overview and show the logical development of ideas in a hierarchical structure. Consistency in design increases readability, while descriptive headings inform readers. Headers and footers contain constant, variable and runtime fields to display images, titles, page numbers and other important information.

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Chapter Two-Technical Report Writing

This document discusses formatting technical reports with headings, chapters and sections. It notes that headings provide an organizational overview and show the logical development of ideas in a hierarchical structure. Consistency in design increases readability, while descriptive headings inform readers. Headers and footers contain constant, variable and runtime fields to display images, titles, page numbers and other important information.

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Chapter Two

Formatting technical reports


Headings, chapters and sections

 Headings are standard features of technical


documents.
 Have the ff. advantages:
 Provide organizational overview of the
document
 Show logical development of ideas
Cont’d…
 Show hierarchical relationship of ideas
(headings, sub-headings)
 Consistency: Make sure that your headings at
each level are consistent in design (font, size,
colour, indentation, etc)
 Increase readability of the document by
providing breaks and white space.
Cont’d…
 Specificity: Use descriptive heading that
informs the reader the content of that section.

Avoid too long and many headings that


may confuse the reader
 Note:
 Do not ‘stack’ headings one below another;
It must have at least a sentence of information
below it
 Do not ‘overuse’ headings; Every sentence does
not require its own heading, nor its paragraph.
Header and Footer
 Are special purpose sections that contain
constant, variable and runtime fields
 Contain information regarding the content of
report intended audience
 Header used to display images, titles, etc
 Footer display page number and some
important informations

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