Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Reports are written for different purposes. They therefore contain different information and
structures, including headings and subheadings, and these form the outline of the report. The
table below shows the sections commonly found in these types of reports.
Science report
Business report
Title page
Title page
Title page
Introduction
Introduction
Executive summary
Discussion
Table of contents
Recommendations
Results
Introduction
References
Discussion
Discussion
Conclusion
Conclusion
Appendices
Recommendations
References
Appendices
References
Engineering report
Research report
Title page
Title page
Executive summary
(optional)
Executive summary
Introduction
Method / methodology
Results / findings
Introduction
Objectives
Analysis
Discussion
Discussion
Conclusions
Recommendations &
action plan
Recommendations
Appendices
Bibliography
Conclusion
Appendices
References