Research: Types of Report !

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Types of Report


The research report used for the business situation is of various types. These reports could be classified as follows:

• Formal-informal

• Written-oral

• Internal-external

• Short-long

• Informational-analytical, and

• Technical-popular

All of these reports have their own formats and styles of reporting.

Basically, the research report has been classified into two groups for the purpose of thesis writing.

1. Descriptive Report:

Descriptive reports can be defined as a description of facts, opinions gathered by the researcher during field work. This collected information should be presented in an organized manner so that it could be able to attract the readers' attention. These reports indicate the nature of the problems an organization is facing and its ways of solving the problems simultaneously.

2. Analytical Report:

This report goes one step ahead of the descriptive report. It does not only describe the problem under investigation, present the facts, figures and factual information about the situations but it also reports the process of scientific investigation and reporting. This report also recommends the possible techniques for the improvements min the situations.

Formats/ Layout of the Thesis report

There is no magic formula that can be given to ensure the desired research report. However, a format or structure is presented I in order to help organize the students in organizing the materials and reporting the research findings.

The reason behind a particular report format is that there are high chances of rejecting your thesis in the case of not meeting the standard format of thesis report.

A thesis report mainly consists of three divisions: prefatory, body and supplementary.

1. Prefatory material:

• Title of the report

• Approval sheet

• Acknowledgements

• Executives summary

• Tables of contents

• Lists of tables and figures

2. Body of the report

• Introduction

• Review of literature

• Methodology

• Presentation and analysis of data

• Summary and conclusion

3. Supplementary material

• References

• Appendices