Assignment on research report
Write an academic report about a topic of your own choice; take into consideration these guidelines when doing your writing.
1. Title: clear and precise
2. Introduction: context of the inquiry. Key related research in the field
• Why did you undertake this particular inquiry?
3. Aim: a brief statement of what exactly you were aiming to find out or achieve in the inquiry
4. Method: what you did - a clear, concise account of what you actually did to carry out the research
• how exactly the experiment or inquiry was set up or carried out
• why you did it this way
• how your methods relate to your aims
• consider using numbered subheadings
5. Results: your findings/data
• how you processed your results clear presentation of your results in words
• straightforward presentation of your processed data in graphs/charts (raw data is in the appendix or lab diary)
• integrate your data and comment
• use numbered subheadings
6. Discussion of results
• point out patterns and trends
• relate results to each other
• relate results to title and aims
• critical assessment of methods used. How what you did may have affected outcomes. What improvements in methods can you suggest? What were the limitations of your study?
7. Conclusions: key points you take away from the investigation.
• Stick to what the data shows, even if this seems very modest
• State your conclusions clearly and do not enter into more discussion
• Don’t add anything that was not in the Discussion section
8. Appendix
• Working tools (eg questionnaire, lab diary)
• Summary of raw data (in tally or table form)