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Primary research report/ Omission. Course: Technical Communication Done by: Benquadi Irchad El Basri Myriam El Fethouni Yasmina Oulad Benchiba Soraya Supervised by: Dr. Belhiah Hassan. Outline. Introduction
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Primary research report/ Omission Course: Technical Communication Done by: Benquadi Irchad El Basri Myriam El Fethouni Yasmina Oulad Benchiba Soraya Supervised by: Dr. Belhiah Hassan
Outline • Introduction • How do you write primary research reports? • Build a team • Find a project requiring a primary research report • Define an audience and purpose • Describe the problem and the background • Describe the purpose, objectives, and scope • Plan the review of literature • Describe the materials, equipment, and facilities • Explain your theory, methods, and procedures • Present the results, finding and data • Write the discussion, conclusions and recommendations • Format the list of information sources • Plan the appendixes • Write the Introduction • Plan the Format • Review and revise the rough draft • Omission • Workshop: Primary Research Report Format • Conclusion
Introduction • Primary research reports are based on gathering information and analyzing it. • Primary research report is research were you gather the most important information from the most important sources
How do you write primary research reports? The 15 points to follow
1-Build a team - Primary research reports take a lot of work that is why is it good to work as a team.
2-Find a project requiring a primary research report • Primary research reports deal with problems where there is no immediate practical problem to be solved. • They do not only solve real or realistic workplace problems.
3-Define an audience and purpose • Develop an in-depth understanding of the situation building a report of the needs, interests, and knowledge levels of the readers. • Readers of primary research reports expect this sequence: problem, background, method, data, discussion, and conclusions.
4-Describe the problem and the background • Discuss the situation that has led to the research work. • Either in the introduction, or in a separate section of its own, is to discuss the situation that has led to the research work.
5-Describe the purpose, objectives, and scope • Discuss what you intended to do in the research project. • Explain the scope of your work. • What were you trying not to do?
6-Plan the review of literature • After you've established the basis for the project, summarize the literature relevant to it. • Summarize this literature briefly • Enable readers to go have a look at it by providing the full bibliographic citation at the end of your report.
7-Describe the materials, equipment, and facilities • Your goals in writing this type of report is to enable the reader to replicate the experiment or survey you performed. • Discuss the equipment and facilities you used in your research. • Describe things in detail, providing brand names, model numbers, sizes, and other such specifications.
8-Explain your theory, methods, and procedures • You must explain the procedures or methods you used so that the reader can replicate your project or visualize it. • Use the step-by-step format for this discussion.
9-Present the results, finding and data • Critical to any primary research report is the data that you collect. • You present it in various tables, charts, and graphs. • These can go in the body of your report, or in appendixes if they are so big that they interrupt the flow of your discussion. • Some results or findings may not be presentable as tables, charts, or graphs. In these cases, you just discuss it in paragraphs. • In any case, you do not add interpretation to this presentation of data. You merely present the data, without trying to explain it.
10-Write the discussion, conclusions and recommendations • You interpret or discuss your findings in a section separate from the one where you present the data. • This section, or area of the report, is also the place to make recommendations or state ideas for further research.
11-Format the list of information sources • List the sources used in the project • Create citations for the information sources • Make a citation for each source you refered to, summarize, or quote
12-Plan the appendixes • Create an appendix for the report (tables of statistics, large illustrations, graphics,…)
13-Write the Introduction • Statement of the problem of the research • The purpose of the research • The limitations • Overview of the content of the report
14- Plan the Format • Article • Business letter • Memo
15-Review and revise the rough draft • Top down approach: -Audience -Purpose -Situation
Omission • It is common and very recommended to use quotations in a research report. However, every quotation needs to be mentioned and omission is to be considered as plagiarism
DO’s • Quotes: - Technical documents - Condensation of quotes need to be mentioned - Fairness to the author - Grammatical integrity of the writing - Decide which facts to include
Dont’s • Misinterpretation of a quote • Omission of the bibliography
Primary Research Report Format • Covers and label • Transmittal letter • Title page and descriptive abstract • Table of contents • List of figures • Abstract • Body of the report • Appendixes
