The Report Structure

Q.what the report should contain if it is five to six pages or less?

Ans: in this case, the report is more to the point and presents a summary of key findings 

Q.what a long or detailed report contains?.

A detailed report contains arguments and contains details about relevant work, research methodology, data sources, and also intermediate findings along with the main results.

Important constituents of a report.

even if a report is small like 4 to 5 pages it should contain the cover page, table of contents, executive summary, detailed contents , acknowledgments, reference, and appendices( if needed).

Explanation of some important constituents of the report.

1.Cover page:  this page contains the title of the report, names of authors, their affiliations, and contacts, the name of the institutional publisher ( if any ), and the date of publication.

2.Table of contents(ToC): This page contains important topics of your whole report it helps to give a quick overview of what the report contains if the report is a big one then it helps a lot.

3.Abstract or an executive summary: Nothing is more powerful than explaining the crux of your arguments in three paragraphs or less. Of course, for large documents running a few hundred pages, the executive summary could be longer.

4.Introductory section: The introductory help the reader who is new to the topic this section helps them to be familiar with the subject

5.Methodology: this section introduces the research methods and data sources you used for the analysis. if you collected some new data then explain the data collection exercise in detail.

6. Results: in this section, you present your empirical findings. starting with descriptive statistics and illustrative graphics, you will move towards formally testing your hypothesis

7.Discussion section: where you craft your main arguments by building on results you have presented earlier. here you rely on your narrative to enable numbers to communicate your thesis to your readers. You refer the reader to the research question and the knowledge gaps you identified earlier. you highlight your findings to provide the ultimate missing piece to the puzzle.

8.Conclusions: Here you write your conclusions drawn from the report and the future goals of your findings.

9.Reference: Here you write the references for your report.

10.Acknowledgment: acknowledging supports of those who have enabled your work is always good.

11.Appendices: if needed