Reporting Cycle
Formal Reports
Research Methods
Glossary
Technology to Enhance Reports
100

The form of direct communication and flow is what direction in the organizational hierarchy?

What is an upward direction?

100

It is meaningful, includes the date of the publication, the author’s name and the organization or business name.

What is a title page? 
100

_____ research methods could include online surveys, in person or phone interviews, and observational methods that are then analyzed.

What is primary? 

100

What does TOC stand for?

What is table of contents? 
100

What applies a stylistic format, professionally designed, to the entire document?

What are themes? 

200

This stage includes the report is in the form of a proposal or a bid, it may need to be in prepared in hard copy format with signatures to be legal.

What is delivery method? 

200

It a list format that provides the reader with information on the main headings and subheadings of the text with accompanying page numbers.

What is table of contents?

200

One or more controlled samples is tested before a variable is then added and manipulated for part of the experiment

What is experimentation? 

200

What does MLA stand for?

What is Modern Language Association?

200

What affects a portion of the document that has been selected?

What are styles? 

300

The scope or magnitude of the report dictates the type of _____ that need to be gathered,

What is data?

300

It illustrates particular data, photos, illustrations, charts, graphs, and trends.

What is a table of figures?

300

This differs from an experimental setting where an artificial environment is created for control purposes and a variable is then introduced. 

What is direct observation?

300

What does PDF stand for? 

What is portable document format?

300

It is an important organizational aspect of report writing that chunks related data and standardizes the look of the document.

What are subheadings? 

400

This stage will determine the type of report to generate.

What is scope or magnitude? 

400

It is supplementary information related to the report.

What is appendix? 

400

It is the consistency of the measurement and the degree to which the questions elicit the same or similar data when used under the same conditions. 

What is reliability? 

400

In Microsoft Word, you can use this for built-in styles and to apply color and graphic shapes and designs. 

What are templates? 

400

What are two rather new functions in word processing software that allow a document to have formatting “brushed” or selected and painted?

What are themes and styles?

500

Reports are a form of _____ that are written to provide more information related to a problem or purpose.

What is business communication?

500

The report text includes? 

What is introduction, body, and summary?

500

What are the two areas of caution when conducting a survey?

What is controlling for bias in the sample and controlling for sampling error?

500

What does APA stand for?

What is American Psychological Association?

500

Add ___ and ____, and built-in shapes to quantify data or to show trends and processes.

What are charts and graphs? 

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