Tuesday, 11 February 2014

Effective report writing

WHAT IS A REPORT?

  • Factual
  • Evidence based
  • Not about opinions unless you have asked for peoples opinions
  • bullet points
  • charts
  • graphs
  • images etc
  • visually structured
START
  • Identify the precise purpose 
  • don't be vague
  • Referenced images (where are they from?)
  • Footnotes (indented text)
  • doing the report (identify objectives, find out)
  • Decide on a title
  • collect information
  • Resources
  • Questionnaires (Surverymonkey)
  • interviews
  • experiences
  • books
  • journals
  • internet
STRUCTURE

COVER SHEET 
  • Name
  • title
  • module
  • program
  • year
  • image?
CONTENTS PAGE
  • Page numbers
  • intro
  • main body
  • conclusion
FONT
  • arial
  • calibri
  • helvetica 
  • something that is easy to ready but not comic sans!!!
INTRO 
  • Tell the reader what you are writing about
PROCEDURE
  • What you have done
  • steps taken and the method
  • how did you research?
  • what worked well?
  • understood limitations (shop location, numbers)
  • use bullet points
  • New page per section
MAIN BODY
  • Images
  • graphs
  • charts
  • tables
  • tell the reader what you found out
  • River Island for example:
  • Layout
  • window display - merchandising
  • Print within 
  • embroidery within
  • pricing
  • quality
  • ethics
  • trends
CONCLUSION
  • round up
  • what have you learnt
  • main thing you found out
APPENDICES 
  • Analysis sheets
  • articles
  • magazines

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