A surprising amount of one's time as student and professional is spent reporting the
results of one's research projects for presentation to teachers,managers,and clients.
Indeed,without basic research skills and the ability to present research results cliearly
and completely,an individual will encounter many obstacles in school and on the job.
The need for some research-writing ability is felt nearly equally by college students in
all fields,enineering and science as well as business and the
humanities.Graduate study often makes great demands on the student's
research-writting skills,and most professions continue the demand.education,advertising
and marketing,economics and accounting.science and engineering,psychology,anthropology,
the arts,and agriculture may all require regular reporting of research data.The standard
research report,regardless of the field or the intended reader, contains four major
sections.These sctions may be broken down into a variety of subsections,and they may
be arrqnged in a variety of ways,but they regularly make up the core of the report.
Problem Section.The first required section of a research report is the statement of the
problem with which the research Poject is concerned.This section requires a precise
statement of the underlying question which the researcher has set out to answer. In this
some section there should be an explanation of the significance social,economic,medical,
psychological,educational,etc.of the question .in other words,why the investigation was
worth conducting.Thus,if we set out,for example,to answer the question What is the effect
of regular consumption of fast foods on the health of the American teenager,we must
explain that the question is thought to have significant relevance to the health of this
health of this segment of the popul.