A report is a scientific genre that many people confuse with an essay, essay or lecture. Or they think that a good report is a piece of a chapter from a dissertation or scientific book. In fact, the report has a clear structure and volume, it involves the analysis of thematic material, and not copying it.
Instructions
Step 1
First, you need to formulate the topic so that it sounds clear to the speaker himself. Then collect the available material on it. This refers to the real list of used literature, not the one that is written to impress the teacher. Students are recommended to use from ten sources, schoolchildren - three to five, depending on age. After that, work begins with information sources.
Step 2
The main provisions are written out in a separate file or in a separate notebook. To make your life easier, you can make a plate: the lines will contain questions, and the columns will contain the authors. The questions depend on the topic of the report, but in general terms they sound like this: "What new did this author say on this topic? Whose works did he rely on? What are the consequences of this?" After that, the stage of preparatory work can be considered completed.
Step 3
The report begins with a properly designed title page, followed by a table of contents, then an introduction, the main part and a conclusion. The introduction can be very short, literally two or three phrases. Or it can occupy the first page. The speaker needs to indicate what topic he touched upon and what it is connected with. For example, "1919 is one of the most mysterious pages in the history of our village." The main part can be broken down into points. For example, "White Guard Movement in the History of Our Village", "Cossacks", "Underground and Partisans". In the report, the author has practically no right to draw his own conclusions. He only summarizes and systematizes what others have written. In conclusion, the speaker can say that the topic requires further research, or it is reflected incompletely, or indicates that research is being actively carried out to this day.
Step 4
The report can be written and oral. Written (especially in the humanities) is not much different from the abstract. Is that the volume is less. An oral presentation is a concentrate of a written one. In order to prepare an oral report, you need to make the presentation of the material even clearer and more intelligible. This is achieved due to terms, a special construction of phrases (scientific style of speech), the absence of author's reasoning. An oral presentation does not exceed fifteen minutes, and the speaker's speech rate is no more than one hundred and twenty words per minute.
