+1 862 207 3288 The most relevant choice (topic) is also related to another few concerns: audience, format and accuracy.
- Choose a prewriting strategy that helps you organize your focus easily
- Choose a format that offers your readers with the most basic and specific view of your information you are presenting to them.
The largest confusion about report writing is that if you are still in the process of investigation (analysis), then you are not ready to write your results (yet). For this reason, students may choose to reserve this project until the end of the course and move on to the argument essay (out of class essay #4).
Note – While “pre-writing” techniques can help prepare writers for writing any essay, a report normally requires more information about a subject than an argument or a narrative.
For example, the analytical report presented in Chapter 12 (“Does Texting Affect Writing”), shows that the writer had access to information, research as well as time to develop her format academically. Much like the professional format for the analytical report sample that is provided via our Blackboard shell, this long term preparation often presents obstacles for a short semester writing class. Research Reports (also known as “research papers”) often fall into this category.
Format
Because we are in a short (accelerated) semester, there are options for how as well as when you deliver your finished report:
- New information (unfamiliar to readers)
- Significant Event or Recent Change (news or process description)
- Comparison or Contrast (summative overview)
Advice
If you choose to refer to your analysis project, then a comparison contast option may be simplest.
If you plan to start a new topic, then a report on significant events or Recent Changes may be necessary to build context.
If you plan to connect your report to your argument essay, then “new information” may be a good
