Writing A Formal Report

Khoza a man of innovation?

Mark Gleeson

Irvin Khoza is either a man of great innovation or runs his club in an archaic fashion, but his insistence last week that a decision on the future of Ruud Krol could only be made once the coach had received “a report” is surely a world first.

Khoza reportedly said Krol’s future is undecided but could be sorted out next week. He said he is awaiting a formal report from the technical team.

Admittedly, I was not there to hear first hand and so am going on what was reported after a midweek press conference, but it is certainly a new spin on trying to explain  away a pretty simple issue.

Who has ever heard of such absurdity? Did Roman Abramovich wait for a report from Carlo Ancelotti when he fired him for failing to win any silverware at Chelsea this season? No! He fired his sorry arse right out of Stamford Bridge, minutes after the last game of the season.

Did Massimo Moratti at Inter Milan wait for paperwork from Rafa Benitez after the coach publicly criticised the chairman for not buying new players? No! He showed him who the boss was with a kick out the door.

Club owners don’t wait for reports! They make decisions, rightly or wrongly, on what they think is best for their team.

Khoza himself has fired a bevy of past coaches when they have not worked out for him and his team. Did Bibey Mutombo or Milutin Srejedovic’s fate depend on their “reports”? Really, do me a favour!

At stake here is the question of whether triple-winning coach Ruud Krol is staying or not. His contract is up and up until the last game of the season, no one at Pirates had spoken to him abut a new one, or at least that is what he repeatedly told us with a shrug of the shoulder.

Well, if you are just months from the end of a contract and no one has come to talk about renewing it, then you are pretty much back in the job market.

Krol made no bones about the fact he accepted he was not being asked to stay on at Pirates, although winning the league and cup double on successive weekends has muddied the waters a lot.

Now the pressure is on Khoza because Krol’s profile among the Pirates fans has gone from sinner to saint. The majority wanted him out in the first half of the season, now they are all writing to papers, phoning the radio stations and texting messages of love.

Writing A Formal Report | Blogger Pinnacle

Since I’ve been spending the past week writing a scientific report for my course I thought I would share how they are done. They are tedious, boring and will truly test your will power! Sadly, writing formal reports is just something that has to be done as part of scientific research! The best way to tackle it is to have a good plan and to just sit down and bash it out, otherwise it will loom over you for days and you’ll be under pressure to get it done later on.

Where To Start?

One of the first things you should always remember about a formal report is that it should always be spoken about in the past tense. You are going to be writing this and telling people what you did and what you found, so it should never include methods you are going to take or are undergoing. The second important technique that should always be remembered is that you are going to write the whole formal report without being personal. Instead of writing ‘I next went on to test the hypothesis…’ it should read, ‘ The hypothesis was then tested…’

Summary Abstract

An abstract is where you sum up your investigation in 100-200 words. It should briefly outline what you investigated, the methods that you employed to complete the investigation and what you found. The abstract can be very tricky to write well so it is sometimes best to write it last. This way you have written the rest of your report and you know exactly what you are summarising.

Introduction

The introduction is very important and should engage the reader whilst giving them the relevant information to understand some of the techniques/formula you have used in the investigation. In short it should tell the reader what you are investigating, why it is relevant and the background research you have done to be able to conduct it.

Method

The method is probably the most boring and tedious section of the formal report of all. If you have written a method before conducting the experiment (as many schools, colleges and universities make you do) then this part is made quick a lot easier. Write exactly what you did and remember to keep it in the past tense. It should read as if your experiment went without a hitch or problem. Once you have written it make sure that you read over it and try to remain objective. Someone else should be able to read this and do the experiment perfectly, so make sure it is watertight.

Results

Your results section is fairly simple to do. It should include the relevant tables and graphs that you are going to use for analysis in your discussion and a brief description of what they are showing. Nothing should be analysed in this section and this can sometime be hard not to do this. Keep it short and sweet! Don’t put in a table and then a graphical representation of the same table. Pick which shows the data best and then use that one and out the other one in an appendix.

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