Skills for Study Level 2 Teacher's Book - Cambridge University Press

Part EReporting in writingThe aim of this lesson is for students to improve their writing skills through:• identifying different types of report• understanding the core features of a typical written report• writing a literature review• building paragraphs in academic writing• creating a poster to report results.Note: Throughout SS2, Part E will introduce the features of different specific reporttypes. In this unit, a general introduction to reports is given. Posters are includedhere as an example of a written report type. The rationale for this is that scienceand engineering poster presentations are not, strictly speaking, presentations atall: the poster should stand on its own as a written presentation of information.In a poster session, the student would be standing by to respond to questions frompassers-by but not to give a prepared presentation to an audience.1 Identifying different types of report1a Group discussion1bAnswers1 c2 e*3 d4 a5 b* ‘General research reports’ would include both fieldwork reports as well as thekind of information reports on a specific topic produced by large organizationssuch as the EU or WEF. Therefore the Global Gender Gap Report 2009 citedelsewhere in Unit 1 would qualify as an example of a report of this type.2 Understanding the core features of a typical written report2a Student discussionNote: There is likely to be debate about the correct answers for this, but as a rule ofthumb, essays are considered here to be more discursive, and reports more neutraland factual; they tend to have more applied purposes.Unit 1 Part E ∙ Reporting in writing 31