Academic Report Writing Template
On this page: Sections of a report with example text, links to related pages on report writing.
This is an example long report template for you to copy to your word processor or print out. Then you can fill in your own details.
Related exercises:
- Trends - this exercise introduces the vocabulary and grammar needed to describe trends. Includes an exercise.
- Trends Headings - this exercise shows how to use headings when describing trends. Includes an exercise.
- Describing Satisfaction - choosing between 'satisfy', 'satisfied', 'satisfying' and 'satisfactory', etc.
- Important or Importance? Explanation and exercise on which word to use.
- 'Lack' or 'Lack of'? - an explanation and an exercise.
(Click here to find out more about references.)
Content and Organisation
- The Report Writing Process: an ordering exercise to re-order the stages of this process
- Academic report writing template: useful phrases and expressions to use in your report.
- Types of Report - the names of different types of report and what they mean.
- Report Stages and Content - what goes in each section of a report.
- Stages and Language of a Report - useful phrases for the sections of a report
- Report Headings - understand the type of information each section of a report should contain.
- Subject Headings - how to write correct subject headings.
Introductions
- Report Writing: Introductions - a page to help you understand the content and grammar of report introductions. It contains explanations, an example and an exercise.
- Report Introductions - a text-reconstruction exercise to help you remember the language of the introduction to a report.
Method / Methodology / Procedure
- The Procedure / Method / Methodology section of a report: how to write it.
- The Procedure / Method section of a report - a text-reconstruction exercise to help you remember the language of this section of a report.
Findings and Discussion
- Matching Nouns and Verbs for Reports - an exercise in choosing the right vocabulary for reports.
- Formality - an exercise to help you to write reports using formal language.
- Describing Numbers - an explanation, a program to write and speak a number, and an exercise
- Trends - this exercise introduces the vocabulary and grammar needed to describe trends. Includes an exercise.
- Describing trends in line graphs
- Trends Headings - this exercise shows how to use headings when describing trends. Includes an exercise.
- The Language of Approximation - an exercise in describing numbers in an easy-to-understand way
- Approximation Correction exercise - to check that you can use the language of approximation correctly
- Approximating Dissatisfaction - an exercise to help you describe dissatisfaction
- Describing Satisfaction in the Findings and Conclusion sections of a report - choosing between 'satisfy', 'satisfied', 'satisfying' and 'satisfactory', etc.
- Important or Importance? Explanation and exercise on which word to use when describing Findings and Conclusions.
- Concern - how to use concern correctly
Conclusion
- The Conclusion section - an explanation, an example and an exercise.
Recommendations
- Report Recommendations - an explanation, an example and an exercise.
- Report Recommendations Correction Exercise - correct the common errors.
Practice Materials
- Report Correction Exercise - correct these common errors made by students in report writing, so that you can avoid making the same mistakes.
- List of common errors in report writing assignments
- Common Errors in Report Writing - revision exercise.
- Report Writing Scenario Site - practice the whole process of report writing
- Scanner - a program that highlights the words in a text that are easy for a reader to find. Use it to improve the organisation and reader-friendliness of your writing.
- List of Materials in CILL for Business reports
For a list of CILL Report Writing Materials, click here. | CILL writing page | CILL Report Writing Materials
For more details on referencing and bibliographies, click here.
Last updated on: Friday, August 19, 2016