Research Report Writing Craft it Well by Dr. Praveena K

There are many, many models for how to write a paper or research report that will hold your readers attention. The secret of a successful approach is to write such that readers have confidence in what you are writing about, they are satisfied from your vocabulary, tone and style that what they are reading is authoritive and scholarly and that they want to keep reading because your content is of interest to them. The purpose of this paper is to provide some guidelines on how to structure the paper and to suggest some essential content so that your writing will be interesting for your readers. The structure guidelines and suggested content are illustrated by the manner in which this paper is written. In other words, if you’re stuck as to what to do next, check to see how it’s done in this paper and try to replicate in your own work, the solution that is shown here. The paper is intended for undergraduate students writing course reports and for postgraduate students who are writing up their research so that a minimum standard of research paper writing can be achieved