report writing

• what is involved in report writing ?

  abstract, introduction, method, results, discussion, acknowledgements references
• what is the abstract ?

  a summery of the study covering its aims, hypothesis, method, results and conclusion 150-200 words, used to give other researchers insight as to if they want to read the whole thin
• what is the introduction?

  review of previous research , so the reader knows why the study is being conducted
• what is the method?

  a detailed discription of what the researcher did, enough to enable replication including: design, pp, apparatus, procedure and ethics
• what is the results ?

  summarise the data and what was found including descriptive statistics, inferential statistics and conclusions drawn
• what is the discussion?

  researcher aims to interpret the results and establish any implications for future work and suggestions on how to improve it considering the methodology, results.
• what are the acknowledgements ?

  the process of recognising a psychologists work and findings within a piece of research or study
• what are the references?full details of journals, articles or books that are mentioned in the report cited at the end
• what is the structure of a reference ?

  surname. initial (year)book title.location of publisher. publisher