1. Writing Formal
Reports
The Recommendation
Report Body
Adapted a presentation from http://www.ais.msstate.edu/AEE/

2. Sections in a
Recommendation Report
Front Matter
Body
Back Matter

3. BODY
Introduction
Methods
Results or Discussion
Conclusion
Recommendations

4. BODY: Introduction
A discussion of the subject,
purpose, organization and
scope
Strategies
• Concisely identify the subject
• Identify the aim/purpose –
Tell why the report was
written: why they should read
the report; what benefits it
will have for them
• Identify how the report is
organized and the approach

5. Introduction
• Give the major sections of the
report and the order in which
they will be covered
• Give the scope and limitations
of the report

7. Methods
• Tells what you did
• Tells how your research was
set up and why

9. Results or Discussion
• Key data that were found or
created
• Analysis of that data
• Must be organized and
objective

11. Conclusion
• A concise interpretation of the
facts that are covered in the
body of the report
• Covers only what the data the
body of the report will support
• There should be no
conclusions drawn that are
not derived from or built from
the data in the body

12. Conclusion
Must stand on its own
Does not include
▫ Equations
▫ Tables
▫ Figures
▫ References
▫ Appendixes
▫ Undefined symbols
▫ Any new information

14. Recommendations
• Actions to be taken based on
the conclusions of the report