Aims and objectives:

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Report Writing
Aims and objectives This unit aims to equip the
student with the abiltity To write reports. The
focus will be on
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• The process of report writing
• Following stylistic appropriateness could with
  formal correctness
• Reporting the concept of chronological
  sequencing while reporting

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• Developing the concept of chronological
  sequencing while reporting
• Using language items while are important
  sequential relationships
• introduction
• A report usually tells about the events that have
  taken place in some order.

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There are different kinds of reports. Newspaper
reports, reporting on activities and events that
have taken place in school,etc. What is a report
? It is a narrative from of writing which
normally reports a sequence of events in some
chronological order.
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• 2. How do we write a report?
• There are some important characteristics
  common to all kind of report writing.
• These are stylistic appropriateness
• correctness

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• Use of past tense
• sequencing
• chronological order
• Look at the following sentences carefully.
  They are not in sequence. Rearrange them

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• and place them in the correct order.
• The fox jumped up and tried to pluck the grapes.
• Finally it gave up and declared that the grapes
  were sour.
• 3. IT tried again and again.
• 4. One day a fox saw some juicy grapes
• Hanging from the vine.

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The correct sequence of the above can also be
guessed by paying attention to sequence markers
such as once, again and finally. Time
relationships between sentences can be signaled
by using certain words . There are three major
divisions of time relationships.
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• Previous to given time reference
• Earlier ,former, preceding, previous, already
  as yet, before ,first, formerly, so far , yet
  ,before that ,before then, until now
• (B) Simultaneous to given time reference

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• contemporary, simultaneous ,at present, at this
  point, meantime, meanwhile, in the mean-time,
  now, presently, simultaneously.
• (C) Subsequent to given time-reference
• following, later, next, afterwards, again,
  immediately, since, then, after that.

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• DIFFERENT KINDS OF REPORT
• Missing person report Look at the notes below.
  Then use the information to complete the report
  by writing suitable words or phrases in each
  space.
• -three year old girl missing.

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• Mother found she was missing.
• informed police.
• DSP supervised probe.
• interviewed residents.
• interrogated suspect.
• munna admitted and disclosed hiding.
• A three-year old girl was kidnapped by a
  neighbour for ransom.

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• The mother ----the police about the missing girl.
  A probe-- by the DSP. More than 30
  residents------.
• Ultimately, Munna, one of the residents of the
  colony, admitted to having committed the crime
  and disclosed---------.

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• (b) Reporting a conversion
• Below is a conversation between Renu and Ravi.
  Complete the following report on what they
  discussed.
• Renu Our new TV has developed a problem.
• Ravi Is anything wrong?
• Renu Yes, the picture is very blurred.

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• Ravi What else?
• Renu well, the sound is bad and there is a lot
  of disturbance.
• Ravi Well have to get this set replaced.
• Renu told that Ravi asked her was wrong . She
  Said that and also the sound was bad Ravi
  finally declared that they would have

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• (C) An accident report
• while reporting an accident the following
  question should be kept in mind .
• - What sort of accident Was it?
• - Where did it take place?
• - Who was involved?
• - When did it happen?

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• - What happened to each person involved?
• - What was the outcome?