TYPES OF

TECHNICAL REPORT
TECHNICAL
REPORT
 TECHNICAL REPORT
A technical report is a document written
by a researcher detailing the results of a
project and submitted to the sponsor of
that project.
REPORT
LAYOUT
 REPORT LAYOUT
 Remember, a report should be
computerized or typewritten on a white
paper of high
quality 8 ½ by 11 inches.
 The margins, spacing, indenting and
paging must be accurate, as well.
THE TYPES
OF REPORT
 1. The Formal Report Format
Formal report is the conventional “full
address” report that includes all or
nearly all the
parts.
 This report should contain the
following:
 cover page
 title page
 letter of transmittal
 table of contents
 list of figures
 abstract
 headings
 quotations and listings
 equations
 formulas
 2. Informal Report Format
 The term informal report simply means
short reports
 A typical informal report has no cover
page, letter of transmittal, title page,
table of contents and no list of
illustrations.
 2. Informal Report Format
 If there is a need for an abstract, it
appears on page one, preceded by the
title and the author’s name and
followed immediately by the text.

 Generally, form reports, letter reports

and reports designed for circulation
within an organization is called
informal.
 3. The Memorandum Report
 The most common of all reports
 This report contains the following
features:
3. The Memorandum Report
 4. The Letter Report
 A letter report has the physical features
of a typical business letter.

 It may vary in formality according to its

purpose.

 You should also consider the type of

readers who will receive the letter
report, as well as the subject being
discussed
 5. Bulletins
 these are used for both internal and
external communications
 They present information that is more
important than the information you find
in a memorandum.
 Bulletins are distributed to a number of
readers.
 In other words, bulletins are for
general-specific audiences.
 Other organizations call them
newsletters.
 6. Booklets
 Booklets are made to distribute specific
information and elaborate this
information accordingly.

 Most booklets are not longer than three

pages.

 Resembling books, they contain covers,

title pages, table of contents and
sometimes covering letters of
transmittal.
 7. Short Reports
 Short Reports deal with the topics that
are limited in scope.

 These reports could either be formal or

informal.

 he informal consists of one to three

pages and the formal report may run up
to ten pages.

 Any report, which consists of more

 8. The Abstract
 The purpose of the abstract is to give
the readers enough information to
decide whether or not to read the whole
report.

 In other words, an abstract is the

summary of the report.

 This summary should include a

statement of the purpose of the project,
general methods or procedures used
Two Types of
Abstracts
 1. Descriptive Abstract
 A Descriptive Abstract gives the
essence of the report by offering the
most significant material in the paper.
 It provides more information than the
informal abstract.
 Thus, it is longer and harder to write.
 However, unless brevity is important,
this is the better type of abstract.
 2. Informal Abstract
 This tells us what things are taken up in
the report.

 This abstract is short and easy to write

but obviously contains little information.