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The learner demonstrates the
understanding of:

o Guidelines in making conclusions and

recommendations

o Techniques in listing references

o The process of report writing

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The learner is able to:

o Form logical conclusions

o Make recommendations based on conclusions

o Write and present a clear report

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The learner:
o Draws conclusions from patterns and themes
o Formulates recommendations based on
conclusions
o Lists references
o Presents a written research report
o Finalizes and present best design
o Writes short description and present best design
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Reporting - giving a spoken or written

account of something that one has
observed, heard, done, or investigated.
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Guidelines in making conclusions and
recommendations:

Conclusions:
• you interpret the findings and indicate what can
be concluded from them.
• indicate whether the results confirm, totally or in
part, your original expectations or predictions.
• For each hypothesis, indicate whether it was
supported and why.
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• Discuss any limitations inherent in your research
procedures.
* Limitations - They are the shortcomings,
conditions or influences that cannot be controlled by
the researcher that place restrictions on your
methodology and conclusions.

• What implications do these limitations have for

the conclusions drawn from the results?
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Recommendations:
• present and discuss the actions that future
researchers should take as a result of your Project.
• make a formal recommendation regarding the
alternative that is best supported by the study.
• Present and discuss the kinds of additional research
suggested by your Project.
• If the preferred alternative is implemented, what
additional research might be needed?
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• Remember that in making your recommendations,
you must show how your results support them.
• state what should be done, the steps required to
implement the policy, and the resources needed;
• Discuss its benefits to the organization and what
problems would be corrected or avoided;
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Techniques in listing references:
*Referencing is a standardized method of
acknowledging the sources of information and ideas
you have used.

• At the end of any piece of work (from an essay to

an article for publication), you need to include a
bibliography (list of references) of the materials
used in writing it.
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• It is important to acknowledge the inclusion of
ideas and quotations from other people to avoid
charges of plagiarism.
• You should reference all direct quotations, any
ideas that you have summarized and any statistics
that you have used.
• Each source must be listed only once in the
Reference List, but each source may be cited more
than once in-text.
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• You may use direct quotations (copying and pasting)
from any source if you correctly acknowledge the
source (called “citing”).
• You may change the words, ideas, opinion or theory
of an original source (also called paraphrasing) by
giving credit to the original source (called “citing”).
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Reasons for referencing:
• To let the reader know whose ideas the writer are
using.
To give recognition to the original author of the text,
opinion, idea, fact, image, etc.
• To enable your reader to check your information.
• Sources confirm the completeness of the
research.
• Quotations and references lend authority to the
argument, view, etc.
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• The source list can be consulted by the reader
to verify information in the text.
• The sources can be used by the reader as
additional sources to a topic.
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* A report is a short, sharp, concise document which is
written for a particular purpose and audience.

The process of report writing:

• Set out what you plan to say in the introduction
and provide a brief summary of the problem in
discussion.
• Carefully structure the main body of the report
in a way that leads readers through the issue.
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• Set out what inferences you drew from the
information, including experimental results, in the
conclusion.
• Suggest how you think the situation could be
improved through its recommendations.

“if it’s not relevant, leave it out”