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Methodology of Social Research Sukanya Das, Lovely Professional University

notes Unit-30: Writing a Research Report

CoNteNts
objectives
introduction
30.1 research report Writing
30.2 objectives of Preparing the report
30.3 Problems of Preparing the report

30.4 Contents of the report
30.5 Characteristics of a Good report
30.6 importance of report
30.7 summary
30.8 Keywords
30.9 review Questions

30.10 further readings

objectives

After studying this unit students will be able to:
y Understand the importance of research report writing
y Know about the preparation for research report writing.
y Know about the characteristics of a good report.

introduction

in research work, it is not just enough to gather heaps of data to know about the true meaning, cause
and result pertaining to the subject under research until the data is arranged properly for analysis
and description. it is necessary to properly analyse, describe the data and convert them into a written
form in order that they become gems of research. it helps other researchers to study the same subject
and re-examine the results. Also it facilitates them to make an outline of the social planning and
improvement from the results and opinions. In order to fulfil these objectives, a complete written
description of the survey research is done, which is known as a report.

30.1 Research Report Writing

Every social survey or research is based on the compiled data from scientific technological methods.
But data alone cannot do anything until they are classified and summarised. Even classification and
summarisation is insufficient until they are used to analyse and describe the data to arrive at scientific
results. if these results become a resident of the brains of scientists and researchers, then there is no

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