Chap-13 Report Preparation and Presentation

Report presentation
• Researchers differ in the ways they prepare a research
report.
• The personality, background, expertise, and
responsibility of the researcher, along with the
decision maker (DM) to whom the report is
addressed, interact to give each report a unique
character.
• Yet there are guidelines for formatting and writing
reports and designing tables and graphs

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 Report Formats
 Title page
 Letter of transmittal

 Letter of authorization

 Table of contents

 List of tables

 List of graphs

 List of appendices

 List of appendices

 List of exhibits

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  Executive summary
 Conclusions

 Major findings

 Recommendation

 problem definition

 Background to the problem

 Statement of the problem

 Approaches to the problem

 Research Design

 Type of research design

 Information needs

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 Data collection from secondary
sources
Data collection from primary sources

Conclusions and recommendations

Exhibits

Questionnaires and forms

Statistical output

Lists

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  Scaling techniques
 Questionnaire development and pretesting
 Sampling techniques
 Fieldwork
 Data Analysis
 Methodology
 Plan of data analysis
 Results
 Limitation and caveats
 Conclusions and recommendations
 Exhibits
 Questionnaires and forms
 Statistical output
 Lists

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