Doing Reports

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Doing Reports

• Tian-Li Yu
• tianliyu_at_cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw
• Department of Electrical Engineering
• National Taiwan University

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Primitives

• Abstract
• What is this report about?
• Briefing your methodology
• If possible, simple conclusion
• Introduction
• Background
• Why is this important or interesting?
• Current state of the art
• Purpose
• Roadmap

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Primitives (2)

• (Optional) Definitions, terminologies, or details
  of selected methods
• Methodology
• Experimental results, screen shots
• Need to show what you want to say

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Primitives (3)

• Conclusions
• Future work
• Final words what should readers learn from your
  report?
• References
• Need to have some style.
• APA preferred.

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To do and not to do

• What you should do
• Know your readers
• Be precise and concise
• Have a flow in mind, and check frequently while
  writing
• What you should not do
• Add words for the sake of report size
• Beat around the bush
• Mindlessly say whatever you want to say

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Examples

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