Types of Technical Report
TECHNICAL WRITING AND SCIENTIFIC REPORTING
TYPES OF TECHNICAL REPORT
I. BASES OF REPORT CLASSIFICATION
A. Subject Matter – based on subject field such as accounting, business, medicine, economics, marketing, engineering and the like
B. 1. Time-interval – based on frequency of occurrence: daily, weekly, monthly or annually. Examples include
1. Routine weekly and monthly reports made by salesmen
2. Periodic progress reports in big corporations
3. The corporation’s annual report of operations
C. Function – based on what reports do.
1. 2. Informational Reports – present facts bearing the subject
2. Analytical Reports – analyze the facts and information gathered for the readers to understand the report easily
D. Formality – the way reports are written
1. 3. Formal Reports – those that are dressed up and appropriately worded to fit the requirements of a very formal occasion; contains prefatory and supplement parts aside from the text. It has an impersonal style, hence the consistent use of the third person pronouns is followed.
A report is said to be formal if:
a. The material is long
b. The report is to be read by many people
c. The report is to be kept for reference and use in the future
Parts:
a. Title Page
b. Letter or Transmittal
c. Table of Contents
d. Abstract
e. Body
e.1. Introduction
e.2. Discusssion
e.3. Conclusion
e.4. Recommendation (if any) f. Appendix
2. Informal Reports – contain only the basic parts of a report
E. Length – depends on the number of pages the report contains; 1 to 10 reports are usually short reports
Short Report – deals with a topic which is narrow in scope and either written formally or informally. Parts:
1. Title
2. Introduction
3. Result and findings
4. Summation
F. Format – it varies with the expected outcomes, the use and the formality of the situation. The types of report according to format are the following:
1. 4. Fill-in the blanks – a type of report where results are
TYPES OF TECHNICAL REPORT
I. BASES OF REPORT CLASSIFICATION
A. Subject Matter – based on subject field such as accounting, business, medicine, economics, marketing, engineering and the like
B. 1. Time-interval – based on frequency of occurrence: daily, weekly, monthly or annually. Examples include
1. Routine weekly and monthly reports made by salesmen
2. Periodic progress reports in big corporations
3. The corporation’s annual report of operations
C. Function – based on what reports do.
1. 2. Informational Reports – present facts bearing the subject
2. Analytical Reports – analyze the facts and information gathered for the readers to understand the report easily
D. Formality – the way reports are written
1. 3. Formal Reports – those that are dressed up and appropriately worded to fit the requirements of a very formal occasion; contains prefatory and supplement parts aside from the text. It has an impersonal style, hence the consistent use of the third person pronouns is followed.
A report is said to be formal if:
a. The material is long
b. The report is to be read by many people
c. The report is to be kept for reference and use in the future
Parts:
a. Title Page
b. Letter or Transmittal
c. Table of Contents
d. Abstract
e. Body
e.1. Introduction
e.2. Discusssion
e.3. Conclusion
e.4. Recommendation (if any) f. Appendix
2. Informal Reports – contain only the basic parts of a report
E. Length – depends on the number of pages the report contains; 1 to 10 reports are usually short reports
Short Report – deals with a topic which is narrow in scope and either written formally or informally. Parts:
1. Title
2. Introduction
3. Result and findings
4. Summation
F. Format – it varies with the expected outcomes, the use and the formality of the situation. The types of report according to format are the following:
1. 4. Fill-in the blanks – a type of report where results are