REPORT WRITING IN APA format

REPORT WRITING

It is simply a 

statement of things that have already occurred. 

RULES TO KEEP IN MIND BEFORE WRITING A REPORT

ACCORDING TO AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGY ASSOCIATION(APA) FORMAT 6th EDITION

font size of report

Body-12  

subtopic-14  

max-topic-16

line spacing-1.5  

left margin-1.5 

right margin-1 

Bottom-1

1.Direct and positive sentence

2.use of first person

3. Use gender neutral language

4.No emotional language

5.label opinion and observation(what major people and minor people said)

6.when non-English terms and expression are used their English expression should be written in bracket.

7. Abbreviation can be used.

8. consistency

Tabular and Graphical Representation

1. Tables and figures should be given title.
2,   Each table or figure should be given number like 4.1,4.2......and so on
3. write table number instead of following table
4. source of data should be cited at the end of table.

FORMAT OF THE GRP REPORT

PREFATORY MATERIALS

1.TITLE PAGE

2.APPROVAL SHEET

IT SHOULD BE DECLARED THAT THE REPORT IS NOT COPIED.

(I HEREBY DECLARE THAT THIS IS ORIGINAL AND IF IT IS FOUND TO BE COPIED, I AM READY FOR THE CONSEQUENCE ACCORDING TO UNIVERSITY RULES AND REGULATIONS)

3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

LETTER OF THANKS

4.EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

SUMMARY OF THE WHOLE REPORT.

5.TABLE OF  CONTENTS

6. LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES

7.ABBREVIATION

BODY PART OF THE REPORT

1 INTRODUCTION

a) Definition

b)Brief history

c)contribution/importance

2.REVIEW OF LITERATURE AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

a) surname

b)year of publication

c)Topic

d)objectives

e)sample and population

f)sampling technique

g)data collecting instrument

h)data analysis tools

i)conclusion

example:

karki(2018) conducted a research on <topic> . the objective of the study was to ......

3.RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

EXPLAINING THE WAY OF DOING RESEARCH

4.RESULT AND DISCUSSION

Explain figures and charts along with the results of reports.

5. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

EASY TO WRITE IN BULLETS AND INCLUDE 4 OBJECTIVES AND 4 CONCLUSIONS

In the end include references taken from other sources like books, articles, movies, documentaries and so on......

HOPEFULLY THIS INFORMATION HELPED YOU.