Chap-12 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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