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What is distinctive about a report?
What is distinctive about a report?
This chapter will be shorter than its dissertation counterpart, partly because reports are so widely used that they have taken on a life of their own, with multiple variations in how they are produced and presented. However, there are some standard aspects to reports:
- Bound: Although you might not be required to pay out for a commercial binding service, it would be unusual for a report simply to be stapled together; more usually, it would be in a report wallet or bound in some way. Commercial organisations and educational establishments will often have an on-site binding service for this type of document.
- Visually impressive: A company logo, the use of colour or an eye-catching font might be used on the ...
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