UNIVERSITY OF CALOOCAN CITY

Tulip St. Area C., Camarin, Caloocan City Business Correspondence and Technical Writing TOPIC: Informative Report

Informative Report - Passes on what someone has learned about a topic or issue - Current and specific topics A. an Informative Report gives you a chance to do the following: 1. Read more about an issue that interests you 2. Make sense of what you have read, heard, and seen 3. Teach others what you have learned B. Approach writing an Informative Report as a process 1. Selecting a topic that interests you 2. Considering what your readers know about the topic 3. Developing an objective stance 4. Comparing a thesis that summarize your knowledge of the topic 5. Providing context in your introduction 6. Organizing your paper for clarity by classifying and dividing information 7. Illustrating key ideas with examples 8. Defining specialized terms and spelling out unfamiliar abbreviations 9. Concluding by answering so what? Informative Reports in the Social Sciences: Examine a wide range of behavioral and social phenomena: A. Types of Informative report in Social Sciences:

1. Research reports 2. Reviews of the Literature B. Write reviews of the literature to summarize C. Write Informative Papers in to Sciences to share discoveries D. Write lab reports to demonstrate understanding Informative Reports in the Sciences 1. Abstract 2. Introduction 3. Methods and Materials 4. Results 5. Discussion 6. Acknowledgement 7. References Information reports in the societies - Describe new and existing knowledge about the ideas stories and values of people past and present Some types of informative reports in humanities 1. Concert theater or film reports describe the elements of a single performance. 2. Book reports describe the plot, characters, settings, and the message of novel