writing reports
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Step by step guidance on report writing.TRANSCRIPT
Reports have some characteristics that set them apart from other types of writing.
Kinds of Reports:
• Accidents / Incidents• Events• Meetings• Experiments• Business Matters
Australian scientists said
Thursday that a dog with a nose
for sewage had found evidence
that life once, and may still, exist
on Mars. Biophysicist Tony
Taylor said his mongrel had
sniffed out bacteria in mud from
Queensland state that matched
fossils of primitive organisms in
a Martian meteorite which
plunged into Antarctica 13,000
years ago. This backed a theory
by NASA scientists who
examined the potato-sized
meteorite, called ALH84001,
after it was retrieved in 1984 and
concluded 12 years later that life
existed on Mars. Taylor said his
13-year-old Dingo-Kelpie cross-
named Tamarind had unearthed
the mud-bound bacteria while
sniffing around in the ooze at
Moreton Bay on the Queensland
coast in 1990s. "She's come
along on all my field trips,"
Taylor said explaining that he
had taught the dog to sniff out
sediments containing specific
bacteria. "It smells like sewage
and she knows the word
'stinky'.“
T
he Economic Times
Friday, 30 January 2004
We find a large number of reports covering a number of topics in newspapers everyday. Look at the following report. Do they have all the characteristics?
Australian scientists, and their dog, say life once existed
on Mars
Accidents and IncidentsQuestions: You are Amrit / Anita of the Sigma Youth Organization. You
witnessed the ghastly accident of the Punjab Mail at Bhusaval. Write a report in 150 -200 words, of the disaster for your organization’s news letter.
Begin: Deaths and disaster come uninvited ……………..
At the station to see my friend off – a goods train just left the station – Punjab mail coming from the opposite direction – a deafening sound of collision – a head-collision – two on the same track – four boggies got derailed. A ghastly accident – dead bodies lying over the rails – people started rushing – doctors and medicine