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Should I be asking research questions in a report?
Should I be asking research questions in a report?
We tend to think of reports as being there to provide answers for the reader, but this does not mean that they are closed-off documents, which do not allow for any speculation at all. Whereas in a dissertation you might find a series of research questions, either implied or explicit, cropping up throughout the work, with some of them answered as the work progresses, in a report there is usually a more formal approach to research questions.
Research questions which you are about to answer might be introduced in the first section of the report, which could be headed in various ways, including ‘Introduction’ or ‘Background’. This is also the section in which I would advise ...
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