REPORT WRITING AND DOCUMENTATION
1. Report Writing and Documentation
For this chapter, we shall consider three types of reports, viz: Research reports, technical reports, and academic papers.
We shall also look at the following:
Structure and Formatting of a Technical Report
o Preliminary pages: cover page, title page, declaration, certification, dedication, acknowledgements, abstract, table of contents, list of tables, list of figures, list of plates, abbreviations, glossaries and symbols.
o Body of the Report: Introduction, Literature Review, Materials and Methods/Research Methodology, Presentation of Data/Results, Discussion of Results, and Conclusion and Recommendations.
o Back Matter: References, Appendices.