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Jayatee Bhattacharya, Lovely Professional University Unit 16: Academic Report Writing

Unit 16: Academic Report Writing Notes

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction

16.1 Difference between Academic and Business Reports
16.2 Guidelines for Writing Summer Project Report
16.3 Project Proposal: Synopsis

16.3 Norms for the Summer Project
16.4 Components of the Project Report
16.5 Project Presentation
16.6 Summary
16.7 Keywords

16.8 Self Assessment
16.9 Review Questions
16.10 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
Discuss difference between various types of reports
Explain How to write Project proposals
Discuss the norms for projects
Describe the components and presentation of projects
Introduction

Reports may be Business Reports or Academic Reports. After having studied about Business
Reports, we learn about academic report writing. The word “Academic” means “that which is
related to studies or education”, so Academic reports are those reports which are prepared by
students in their course of study or attaining a degree.

Nearly all universities and management institutes, require their postgraduate management and
engineering students to do an industry related project, usually during their summer term, as
part of their curriculum. After completion of this research project, they are required to submit a
report for the same. Institutes, of management technology generally provide manuals which
give guide lines, procedures, and rules for the summer projects.
Though mostly students do a lot of hard work during the collection of data and other information
related to their research topic, but due to lack of good written communication skills, the fail to
present their work in the form of a proper Report for the research.

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