HOW TO WRITE

A GOOD REPORT
CE106 Communication and Presentation Technique
By Group ALL FIRE IS ONE
5 EASY WAYS TO WRITE A GOOD REPORT
STEP 1 : STEP 2 : STEP 3 :
Selecting Researching Prewriting for
your Topic Your Topic Your Report

STEP 5 : STEP 4 :
Finalizing Your Report Writing Your Report

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STEP1 :SELECTING YOUR TOPIC
1. Understand the assignment.
2. Choose a good topic that you love.
3. Pick an original topic.
4. Keep in mind that you can change your topic.

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 STEP 2 : RESEARCHING YOUR TOPIC
1. Research your topic.
2. Visit the library or the internet
3. Make sure your online sources are
reputable.
4. Keep track of all of the information you
find.

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STEP 3 : PREWRITING FOR YOUR REPORT

1. Come up with a thesis statement.

2. Create an outline.
3. Decide how you will format your report.

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 STEP 4 : WRITING YOUR REPORT

1. Write your introduction.

Provide some background
information on your topic and then
state your thesis so that the reader
knows what the report is going to be
about.

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STEP 4 : WRITING YOUR REPORT

2. Write your body paragraphs.

The body paragraphs are where you state

your evidence that supports your thesis.
Each body paragraph consists of a topic
sentence and evidence supporting the
topic sentence. The topic sentence
introduces the main idea of the body
paragraph and links the paragraph back to
the thesis.

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STEP 4 : WRITING YOUR REPORT

3. Support your topic sentence.

provide evidence found in your research that supports your topic sentence. This
evidence can be descriptions of things mentioned in your topic sentence, quotes
from experts on the subjects, or more information about the topic listed.

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STEP 4 : Writing Your Report
4. Write your conclusion. 5. Cite your sources.
Format any quotes you use, as
well as your bibliography
accordingly.

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STEP 4 : WRITING YOUR REPORT

6. Format your report.

- Standard format for academic reports in the United States is 12-point
- Times New Roman or Arial font
- Double-spaced lines, and 1-inch margins all around.

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STEP 5 : FINALIZING YOUR REPORT

1. Read through your report from an outsider’s perspective

2. Get someone else to read your report.
3. Proofread your report.
4. Read your report out loud.
5. Put your paper aside for a few days.

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ANALYSIS OF GOOD REPORT
 Report title

Report completion date

Name of person

Name of company that the

report has been prepared for

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Table of contents
which enable the
readers to find the
desired content.

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BODY PART
For the body part
1. Abstract 6. Experimental data
2. Theory 7. Results
3. Objectives 8. Discussion
4. Procedure 9. Conclusion
5. Equipment 10. Improvement
11. Appendix

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 This abstract is not a
good one
since it lacks of some
important parts such
as the statement of  This objective is good
problem and
recommendation. since objectives was
In addition, written briefly and
discussion and followed by the theory
conclusion in the which showed the
abstract should be background
explained more. information of the
report

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Then the materials and
apparatus (or the equipment)
with illustration were presented,
sequence and description of
figures were also written.
Procedure should be listed in
sequence rather than by images

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The experimental data were
presented in form of table
with the description which is
easy for readers to
understand and also be able
to avoid the confusion.

Maybe data should be

shown in graph to see the
trend better

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Discussion and conclusion
were presented explained
well, but the sections
should be separated for
more clarity

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Appendices should be
presented to show the
calculation involved with the
experiment and to let the
readers know how come the
result. This is extra info that
supplements the reader with
more details

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The references was written to show the source of report, however,
it should contain more specific information (e.g. pages of text book).

Reference is good

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 Grading Example Report
Cover page
B+ Objectives
B+ Results
A
Contents
B+ Procedure
C Discussion &
Conclusion B+
Abstract
B Equipment
C Improvement
B
Theory
B+ Experiment
data A Appendix
A

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Thank you!

Any questions?

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