Writing the Investigatory Report
Generally, the investigatory report should be typeset in paragraph form, double spaced on 8.5" × 11" size bond paper, and using a common word processing program.
Note the following parts of an organized investigatory report:
- Title page — displays the title of the investigatory project and the experimenter’s name, grade level, and section
- Abstract — presents the summary of the research
- Acknowledgments — contains the names of people and agencies that helped you conduct your investigation.
- Table of contents — shows the different parts of the investigatory project with corresponding page number for each part
- Introduction — presents the research problem and hypothesis; also presents other parts of the study, as follows:
- Background: informs the reader about the rationale of the study or why the investigation was undertaken; also includes the statement of the main problem and subproblems
- Significance of the study: explains the importance of the study
- Scope and limitation: states the coverage and extent of the study
- Review of related literature: gives sufficient background information on the scientific basis and social significance of the study
- Methodology — provides the details of the steps or procedure as well as the statistical analysis used, if any; also includes the materials used; written in past tense form
