HUM102 lecture Report Writting Skillsppt

REPORT WRITTING SKILLS

1. HUM 102 Report Writing Skills Lecture 02 1

2. Previous Lecture Basics of a report Report characteristics Expectation and purpose Significance of a report Relevance, attributes and features of a report Comparison of a report and essay 2

3. Audience 3 Technical Readers General Readers Managerial Readers

4. Purpose 4

5. Examples 5

6. Technical Report Writing Written account of events related to a scientific inquiry An exercise of effectively communicating a technical information Interpretation of graphs, tables and figures using language Foundation: organization of information 6

7. Universal Characteristics 7

8. Report Structure: Title Page 8

9. Report Structure: Abstract 9

10. Report Structure: Table of Contents 10

11. Report Structure: Introduction 11

12. Report Structure: Design and Procedure Theoretical Description of Design Testing of Proposed Design No Specific Measurements Brief and Getting to the Point 12

13. Report Structure: Results and Discussions Textual explanation accompanied with: Figures Tables Diagrams 13

14. Quantitatively Summing Up all the Results with Brevity No Abbreviations Problems Objectives Procedures Results 14 Report Structure: Conclusion

15. 15 Report Structure: Works Cited and Appendix

16. Report Structure: Nature of Readers 16

17. Report Structure: Language 17

18. Deductive vs. Inductive Report 18 Deductive Report Inductive Report

19. Deductive Report Inductive Report 19 Deductive vs. Inductive Report

20. Deductive Report Inductive Report 20 Deductive vs. Inductive Report

21. Deductive Report Inductive Report 21 Deductive vs. Inductive Report

22. Deductive Report Inductive Report 22 Deductive vs. Inductive Report

23. Deductive Report Inductive Report 23 Deductive vs. Inductive Report

24. Deductive Report Inductive Report 24 Deductive vs. Inductive Report

25. Deductive Report Inductive Report 25 Deductive vs. Inductive Report Specific General

26. Deductive Report Inductive Report 26 Deductive vs. Inductive Report

27. Deductive Report Inductive Report 27 Deductive vs. Inductive Report

28. Deductive Report Inductive Report 28 Deductive vs. Inductive Report

29. Deductive Report Inductive Report 29 Deductive vs. Inductive Report General Specific

30. Deductive Report Inductive Report 30 Deductive vs. Inductive Report

31. Deductive Report Inductive Report 31 Deductive vs. Inductive Report Specific General General Specific

32. Conclusions Technical communication Nature of the audience Structure of a report Deductive vs. Inductive report 32