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    A report provides a written account of an event, investigation, or activity. It can be informal, like a report on a lost item, or formal, like an annual business report. The basic function is to inform people about what occurred. Reports are categorized as major or minor, with major reports including subheadings. Examples of major reports include geography projects and environmental impact assessments, while minor reports include police and eyewitness reports. All reports generally include a title, introduction, main body with details in paragraphs, conclusions, and information on the author. The main body should answer the questions of what, when, where, who, how, and why.

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    A report provides a written account of an event, investigation, or activity. It can be informal, like a report on a lost item, or formal, like an annual business report. The basic function is to inform people about what occurred. Reports are categorized as major or minor, with major reports including subheadings. Examples of major reports include geography projects and environmental impact assessments, while minor reports include police and eyewitness reports. All reports generally include a title, introduction, main body with details in paragraphs, conclusions, and information on the author. The main body should answer the questions of what, when, where, who, how, and why.

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    A report provides a written account of an event, investigation, or activity. It can be informal, like a report on a lost item, or formal, like an annual business report. The basic function is to inform people about what occurred. Reports are categorized as major or minor, with major reports including subheadings. Examples of major reports include geography projects and environmental impact assessments, while minor reports include police and eyewitness reports. All reports generally include a title, introduction, main body with details in paragraphs, conclusions, and information on the author. The main body should answer the questions of what, when, where, who, how, and why.

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    REPORT WRITING

    A report is a written or spoken account of something witnessed, heard, seen, done, studied or
    work carried out or of an investigation. It may be an informal report about an accident or a lost
    item or a formal report about the activities of an institution such as a school or a club or an
    annual report of a business firm.
    The basic function of a report is to inform people about events that have taken place. It gives a
    detailed account or description of such events.

    Reports can be categorised in two; major and minor reports. The basic difference between a
    major and a minor report is that a major report has sub headings while a minor one does not.
    Examples of major reports include: Geography Project, Environmental Impact Assessment,
    Audit, J. .E. T. S to mention a few.
    Examples of minor reports are: Police, School incident, Newspaper, Eye witness to name a few.

    Although there are different types of reports, the features below are common:
     Title which must be brief and say what the report is all about.in block letters e.g. A
    REPORT ON THE FIGHT IN THE BIOLOGY LABORATORY ON 7 TH
    SEPTEMBER, 2023.
     Introduction summing up the major facts of the events indicating what the report is
    all about by answering ‘wh’ questions (i.e. What happened?, When…. ? Where …?
    Who..?
     Main body- must give details of the report in paragraphs (each paragraph to deal with
    one main idea), the information must be precise clear and relevant.
     Write in third person (s/he it or name) unless it is an eye witness account then the
    pronoun I can be used.
     Use the past tenses
     Use reported speech
     Give a step-by-step narrative
     Be brief and to the point
     Avoid language which is personalised
     In the conclusion, put recommendations in number or paragraph form
     Indicate name and designation (title) of the writer.
     Ending:

    Report compiled by:


    Name
    Signature
    Designation
    NB: To fully answer a report, the following questions should be borne in mind.

    -what happened?

    -when did it happen?

    -where did it happen?

    -who was involved?

    -how did it happen?

    -why did it happen?

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