EAPP 3

• Conclusion


  Part of an essay that presents the action plan or recommendation
• Survey report


  Presents the information gathered during the survey in an objective, precise, and fact-based manner
• Methodology


  Part of the survey report that helps the readers understand how the survey was conducted
• Technical report


  A written scientific document that conveys information about technical research in an objective and fact-based manner
• Fields where technical reports are used

  • Agriculture
  • Engineering
  • Physical science
  • Biomedical science
• Survey report is an integral part of research studies
• Questionnaire


  An effective method of measuring behavior, attitudes, preferences, opinions, and intentions
• The objectives of a technical report can be read in the introduction
• Traditional experimental report structure


  • Introduction
  • Methodology
  • Results
  • Discussion (IMRAD)
• In designing a good survey questionnaire, it is important that questions are not biased
• Skipped questions in surveys are an indicator that the question is not clear and understood
• Questionnaire is an effective way of obtaining a large amount of information from a large sample