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THE MECHANICS OF WRITING A RESEARCH REPORT
RESEARCH REPORTS
Identify the
intended readers- The organization, style, and even the mode of presentation depend on the target audience.
Types of research reports:
Reports aimed at colleagues and intended for publication in
scholarly and professional journals or for presentation at a convention.
Reports aimed at decision makers and intended for in-house use only
THE NEED FOR ACCURATE REPORTING PROCEDURES
Clear explanation of the investigator's methods provides an opportunity for readers to more completely understand the project.
Accurate report provides the necessary information for those who wish to replicate the study.
Researchers should also be able to replicate a published study from the information contained therein.
THE MECHANICS OF WRITING A RESEARCH REPORT
Introduction
Statement of the problem.
Justification
Aims of the current study.
Literature Review
Accuracy
Relevance
Methods
Variables used in the analysis
Sample size
Sample characteristics
Methodology
Data manipulation
Results
Description of the analysis
Description of findings
Tables
Discussion
Summary
Implications/discussion/interpretations
Limitations
Suggestions for future research
WRITING STYLE
Writing for Scholarly Journals
Avoid using first person pronouns
When submitting a paper for professional publication
Read the authors’ guidelines published by each journal.
Be stylistically consistent with regard.
Clearly label all displays with meaningful titles.
Keep language and descriptions as simple as possible.
When possible, use the active rather than passive voice.
Proofread the manuscript carefully.
Writing a Report for Business or Government Decision Makers
Provide an executive summary at the beginning of the
report.
a. Get right to the point
b. Keep the language simple and concise.
c. Be brief.
Place detailed and complicated discussions of methods in a technical appendix.
Use clearly defined and easily understood quantitative
analysis techniques.
Use graphs and charts wherever appropriate.
Decision makers like research.
RESEARCH ETHICS
A researcher at a large university hands questionnaires to the students.
A researcher is conducting a mail survey about attendance at X-rated
A researcher recruits subjects for an experiment
A researcher shows one group of children a violent television show and another group a nonviolent program.
Subjects in an experiment are told to submit a sample of their news writing to an executive of a large newspaper.
GENERAL ETHICAL PRINCIPLES
Basic to this concept is the demand that the researcher respect the rights, values, and decisions of other people.
social science research is that of nonmaleficence.
Beneficence stipulates a positive obligation to remove existing harms and to confer benefits on others.
relevant to social science is
the principle of justice.