Features of a report

• Abstract

  a brief summary of the whole report, written last but comes at the start and its a 15-250 word summary of main aims, methods, results and conclusion
• Introduction

  • literature review of relevant studies which the current one is based on
  • develops a rationale for why the current study is being conducted and will finish with a statement of the aims followed by the hypothesis
• Method

  • design of experiment
  • methodological choices
  • participants, sample size demographic
  • materials/apparatus used
  • ethical procedures and how they were dealt with
• Results

  • descriptive statistics
  • a statement of whether the results appear to be in direction of hypothesis
  • details of any inferential stats calculated, if quantitative data used
• Discussion

  • end part of a report
  • explanation of the findings
  • limitations, which leads into modifications
  • then talks about the implications of the research
• Referencing

  • JOURNAL
  • Author (s) , date, article title, journal name (in italics) , volume, page numbers
  • BOOK
  • Author, date, title of book (italics) , place of publication, publisher