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Unit-30: Writing a Research Report

possible that technical words are not used in a report and it is also impossible to completely notes
prevent the report from becoming hard to readers despite using technical words. Another
problem that arises while writing report is that no such word or phrase shall be used that is
ambiguous or casts a doubt in its meaning. if this happens, then there is always a possibility
of developing a wrong notion about certain topics in the report. But in the complete study,
it is not possible to be so careful about the language and there is always some element of
language problem in one form or the other.
2. Problems of Technical Words—there has been outstanding progress in developing technical
terms in natural sciences and there are plenty of words in these sciences whose meaning
without any exceptions are same or understood to be same for everyone and everywhere.
But in social sciences, this shortcoming is often experienced because in social sciences the use
of standard technical terms is often not liked by writers. Not even that, technical vocabulary
related principle differences is also not a less fascinating subject among social sciences and
that different writers have hardly been able to keep themselves distant from certain positive
or negative bias from this vocabulary. As we have already said above- presenting a report
is also a technical subject and standard technical vocabulary cannot be completely avoided,
therefore the lack of this vocabulary in social-sciences becomes a big problem because of
which certain statements in the report become doubtful or ambiguous while researcher’s
real objective may not have been that.
Until there is sufficient development of technical vocabulary in social sciences, the related
problem in preparing reports will always be experienced.

self assessment

fill in the blanks:
1. the biggest problem in preparing a report is the problem of ________________.
2. there has been _________________ progress in developing technical terms in natural
sciences.
3. Presenting a report is also a technical subject and standard technical _________ cannot be
completely avoided.
3. problem of intellectual level of general Mass—While writing the report, another problem
develops regarding the intellectual level of general public, especially in those cases when the
percentage of literate population is very less. often the concept is presented that the research
or survey-work is a serious subject so that the survey-report is not meant for common public.
Many scholars reject this concept. They say that any scientific discovery, whether it is related
to natural world or the social word, is not justifiable until the results of the discovery become
an important part of the household because sometimes even a layman’s interpretation is also
very useful for the scientist. sometimes the report is concerned with the general welfare and
all related people take interest in it. so, the problem arises that the report-writer has to know
the intellectual-level of the related people and this is not an easy job. if there is some mistake
in the process, then the effectiveness of the report diminishes. for example, if some survey
is related to worker class and the report is expected to benefit the workers, but if during the
writing of the report, the intellectual level of workers is not kept into consideration, then
many workers will not be able to really get benefit from the report because of the inability
to understand the real recommendation in the report. But measuring the intellectual level
accurately is itself a problem.
4. problems of seriousness—every researcher has an intrinsic aspiration that his research
report is of the level which makes him popular among high level readers and scholars. But

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