Module 4 Flashcards

1
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What are the 2 kinds of reports?

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  1. Formal report
  2. Informal report
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2
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Complex account that uses formal and structured language

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Formal Report

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3
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Usually applied in major projects and organizations

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Formal Report

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4
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Formal reports can be what?

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  • informational
  • analytical
  • recommendatory
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5
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Presents information, results, or updates

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Informal Report

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6
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Examples of informal report

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Attendance report, financial report, progress report, sales report

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7
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Presents, analzyzes, and draws conclusions

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Analytical report

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8
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Examples of analytical report

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Scientific report, employee appraisal

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9
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Presents recommendations based on result and conclusions

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Recommendatory report

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10
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Communicates information using free-flowing, casual and short formats about routines or everyday business

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Informal report

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11
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Common medium of reports

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  • speeches
  • televisions
  • radios
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12
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documents that wish to inform, analyze, or recommend

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Report

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13
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to keep an updated account of an event/situation/organization

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Report

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14
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Reports can be expressed through…

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written or verbal presentations

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15
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3 most common types of reports

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  1. Technical and Business
  2. Field Reports
  3. Scientific Reports
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16
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disciplines with an applied focus such as Engineering, Information Technology, Commerce, Accounting and Finance

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Technical and Business

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17
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will set report writing assignments that simulate the process of report writing in industry

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Technical and Business

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18
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problem or case study

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Technical and Business

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19
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students research the problem & present the results of the research in a report format

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Technical and Business

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20
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form of writing technical communication or documentation in science and technology or applied science that helps people understand a product/service

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Technical writing

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21
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What is the main purpose of technical writing?

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to inform and to triggger the person into action

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22
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Its purpose may also be to instruct, persuade, but never to entertain

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Technical Writing

23
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Language that technical writing is expressed in

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Formal standard/academic language

24
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  • Uses specialized vocabulary
  • Organized in a systematic pattern
  • Tone of writing is objective
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Technical writing

25
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Common in Law, Industrial Relations, Psychology, Nursing, History, Education

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Field Reports

26
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Analyze their observations of phenomena or events in the real world in light of theories studied in the course

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Field Reports

27
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What do field reports’ content represent?

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They represent the researcher’s interpretation of the meaning found in data

28
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  • are assigned with the intention of improving your understanding of key theoretical concepts
  • facilitate the development of data
  • an opportunity to obtain evidence
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Field reports

29
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What do you need to do when writing a field report?

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  • Systematically observe and accurately record the varying aspects of a situation
  • continuously analyze your observations
  • keep the report’s aims in mid while you are observing
  • consciously observe, record, and alayze what you hear and see in the context of a theoretical framework
30
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4 techniques to record your observations

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  1. note taking
  2. photography
  3. video & audio recordings
  4. illustrations
31
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can help capture an important moment in time as well as document details about the space where your observation takes place

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photography

32
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has the positive effect of giving you an unfiltered record of the observation event

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video & audio recording

33
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to draw a map of the observation setting or illustrating objects in relation to people’s behavior

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Illustrations

34
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use a standard scientific report format describing methods, results, and conclusions to report upon an empirical investigation

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scientific reports

35
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purpose of science report

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clearly communicate your key message about why your scientific findings are meaningful

36
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three key factors that scope and style of reports depend on

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  • intended audience
  • purpose
  • type of info/subject to be communicated (message)
37
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commonly used in the field of hard sciences

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Research report

38
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different parts of research report

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  1. introductory phase
  2. review of literature
  3. research methodology
  4. body of the report
  5. conclusion
  6. recommendation
39
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contextualizes and sets the tone and direction of research writing

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introductory phase

40
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What questions does the introductory phase answer according to Reidman (2001)?

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  • What was I studying?
  • What did we know about this topic before we study?
  • And, how did this study advance new knowledge or new ways of understanding?
41
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4 elements that research report starts with according to Silverman (2006).

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  • title
  • abstract
  • list of contents
  • introduction
42
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  • must get the attention of the readers
  • catches the reader’s attention while properly informing them about the main focus on your research
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Research title

43
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Identify which is the stimulating and descriptive title.
- Have you ever experienced being bullied?
- A study on the perception of the victims of bullying in the primary schools

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Stimulating title: Have you ever experienced being bullied?
Descriptive title: A study on the perception of the victims of bullying in the primary schools

44
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  • provides the readers with a snap view of what you will expect from it
  • gives a synopsis of the objectives and results of the report to be described in detailed form in the body of the report
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Research abstract

45
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what should an abstract contain?

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  • research problem
  • significance and value of the problem
  • data and methods utilized
  • main findings
  • implication in the lught of other research
46
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most common world limit of research abstract

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100

47
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guides the readers to find their way through the different parts of the report

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list of contents

48
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aquaints the readers with the what, why, and how of the report

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introduction

49
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  • provides study background and environment
  • locate the study in its area of discipline and reveal its relevance and significance in the environment
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Review of Related Literature (RRL)

50
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a research report must contain a description of the research strategy. the readers will be interested in find

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rethord methodology

51
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writing about the data collected

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writing your data

52
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2 important areas of consideration in the writing up of the data

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  • data analysis
  • data presentation
53
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how to assist researcher in data analysis

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  • sorting information into categories
  • formatting the information into a story or picture
  • actual data analysis and write up
54
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  • inferences, deductions, abstraction, implications, interpretations, general statements, and/or generalizations based on findings
  • answers the specific questions identified at the introductory phase of the research
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writing the conclusion