Writing a research report is useful not only for academic requirements but also for professional purposes. Therefore, you have to avoid plagiarism in writing a research report.
Plagiarism
Presenting someone else's work or ideas as your own, with or without their consent, by incorporating it into your work without full acknowledgement
Research report
A scientific report or a paper that discusses science topics
IMRAD format
I - Introduction
M - Methods
R - Results
A - And
D - Discussion
Introduction
Contains the background of the topic, research questions, significance or relevance of the research, and scope and delimitations of the study
Methods
Narrates how the research was conducted, including the description of the materials used, participants of the study, and the process of data analysis
Results and Discussion
The outcome of the research is presented in the results section and then interpreted in the discussion part
Research report structure
Title page, abstract, and a page for list of information sources (with different headings depending on the citation style used)
Citation styles
A set of ways of providing sources of information that are incorporated in the text
Citation styles
APA (American Psychological Association)
MLA (Modern Language Association)
CMOS (Chicago Manual of Style)
IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Purpose of a research report
To contribute new, interesting, and objective ideas to a body of knowledge or to a specific field
Audience of a research report
Can be a professor/evaluator (for academic requirements) or wider audience concerned with replicating the study (for professional advancement)
