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Report Writing

Business Communications


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Report

Front matter Body Back matter


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Front matter

Cover page

Title

Forwarding letter

Preface

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of illustrations

Abstract/summary


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Body

Introduction

Findings & Analysis

Conclusion Recommendation


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Back matter

Appendix

Bibliography

Glossary Index


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Cover page

Title

One or two relevant pictures


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Title pageNon-Academic Reading Habits of Students:

A Survey among Undergraduate Students in Dhaka

A report submitted to the Department of English, AIUB, in part-fulfillment

of the requirements of the final examination in Business Communication,

Summer semester 2010

Prepared & submitted byGroup: Genesis

(Section A)

Rabbi Md. Ataul

Ray Pinaki

Chowdhury Aneela

Barua Saurav

Course teacher

Dr./Mr. Ahaduzzaman Reza

Assistant Professor

Department of English

Date of submission

26 July 2010

American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB)


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Forwarding letterNovember 18, 2010

Shariful Hasan

Course Instructor

Business Communication

North Global University of Dhaka

Subject: Submission of our report

Dear Sir,

We take the pleasure to submit our report titled Construction, performance and/or negotiation of

Bangladeshi cultural identities and Bangla language identities of the Srilankans in Dhaka. The

report gave us the opportunity to know how Srilankans in Dhaka construct, perform and negotiatetheir identities.

From a poststructuralist perspective of identity, we examined how two young Srilankans

representing 1.5 generation and second generation, and two adult Srilankans representing middle-

class and working class construct, perform and/or negotiate their identifications with Bangla

language and Bangladeshi culture. The study was based on Dhaka. Interviews and audio recorded

family conversations were the sources of data. The research shows that participants positions in

relation to Bangladeshiness and Bangla language are in are in contestations with the positions

their families, peer groups or other communities of practices ascribe to them.

We thank you for giving us the chance to do the report.

Yours sincerely

Zohora Fatema tuz Tazrin Mst. Nazia Islam Md. Atikul Miah Abu Kausar

08-10489-1 07-08937-2 07-09137-2 07-08446-2


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Preface

Say what the topic of your research was.

Give a background of your research.

Comment on the data collection technique. Do not say the result.


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Preface

In this report, we explored the Bangla language identities andBangladeshi cultural identities of the Bangla-speaking Srilankans inDhaka. From a poststructuralist perspective of identity, we examinedhow two young Srilankans representing 1.5 generation and secondgeneration, and two adult Srilankans representing middle-class andworking class construct, perform and/or negotiate their

identifications with Bangla language and Bangladeshi culture.Research for this report took place among the Srilankans in Dhaka.Interviews and audio recorded family conversations are the sourcesof data. The research showed that participants positions in relationto Bangladeshiness and Bangla language are in contestations withthe positions their families, peer groups or other communities ofpractices ascribe to them. The research also showed that therelationship between how they position them and how they arepositioned is not fixed or static, rather fluid and negotiable wheresocial class, religion and age of arrival in Dhaka play significantroles.


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Acknowledgements

Acknowledgment gives you a chance to showyour gratefulness for the people who helped youwith your report writing.

Acknowledgment is not merely a thanksgivingletter to your course instructor.

Acknowledge the contribution of the participantsof your research.

Acknowledge the help, advice and suggestion ofyour course instructor and/or other instructor(s).

Acknowledge any other help/ advice.


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How to write acknowledgement

Give a heading of acknowledgement.

The heading should be in the center. Then give at lease 4 line space and start your dissertation

acknowledgement with the following lines or similar This thesis would not have been possible unless..

I am grateful

It is a pleasure to thank those who made this thesis possible.

I owe my deepest gratitude to. Now narrow down the people who you want to thank. They can be

your Supervisor

Professors

Advisors

Colleagues Parents

Friends

Or any other who may have helped you


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Acknowledgements

We are heartily thankful to our course instructorShawn Lee Roy, whose encouragement,supervision and support from the preliminary tothe concluding level enabled us to develop anunderstanding of the subject.

We are thankful to the research participants ofthis study. We greatly appreciate their sincereco-operation.

Lastly, we offer our regards and blessings to allof those who supported us in any respect duringthe completion of the study.


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Contents

Content page is a chronological

description of the report with page

number.


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List of illustrations

In this part, give a chronological list of the

charts and tables that your report contains.

Do not put your charts and tables here.


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Abstract

An abstract is a concise single paragraph summary of completedwork or work in progress. In a minute or less a reader can learnthe rationale behind the study, general approach to the problem,pertinent results, and important conclusions or new questions.

The summary should be around two hundred words or less.

Write your summary after the rest of the paper is completed. Afterall, how can you summarize something that is not yet written?

Summarize the study, including the following elements in anyabstract. Try to keep the first two items to no more than onesentence each. Purpose of the study - hypothesis, overall question, objective

Methodology

Results, including specific data

Important conclusions or questions that follow from the experiment(s)

Abstract should be single paragraph, and concise

What you report in an abstract must be consistent with what youreported in the paper


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Abstract sample

This study explores the relationship of women and men in newspapers ofBangladesh during natural disaster. To do this we consider the theories ofvulnerability, gender and feminist media studies and investigate genderrepresentation in newspapers of Bangladesh. The study adopts mixedmethod research on four national dailies of Bangladesh during the cycloneAila attack in 2009. Both quantitative and qualitative content analysis isadopted on 171 news, features and editorials, and 127 images collected

from 25 May to 8 June 2009. The findings show only a few reports arewritten through the lens of gender and most of the news is the manifestationof male perception. Women for the most part are silent or invisible andvoices and views of men predominate in the newspapers during disastersboth as sources and journalists. In contrast to the limited representation ofwomen as sources in news, a large number of women appear in images.However, women are mostly represented in domestic setting playing

traditional gender role in compare to men who mostly are represented doingpost-disaster recovery work in public sphere. The marginalizedrepresentation of women in newspapers as victim makes women morevulnerable during disasters.


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Introduction

Introduction should have two sections:

Introduction and methodology.


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Introduction

The introduction chapter of yourresearch report should include:1) A statement of the problem,

2) A brief overview of the research reportstudy,3) Rationale for doing the research study,

4) Research questions,5) A description of the various researchreport chapters.


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Methodology

The methodology chapter of your researchreport should include:

1) Rationale for choice of method (i.e.,

qualitative, quantitative). Why have you chosenthis method?

2) Selection of participants. How have youselected participants?

3) What happened when you collected the data? 4) Ethical considerations

5) Data analysis


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Findings & Analysis

The purpose of a results section is to present and illustrate yourfindings. Present your result objectively, and elaborate yourinterpretation in the discussion.

The objective here is to provide an interpretation of your results andsupport for all of your conclusions, using evidence from your

experiment and generally accepted knowledge, if appropriate. The significance of findings should be clearly described.

Interpret your data in the discussion in appropriate depth. Thismeans that when you explain a phenomenon you must describemechanisms that may account for the observation. If your resultsdiffer from your expectations, explain why that may have happened.If your results agree, then describe the theory that the evidencesupported. It is never appropriate to simply state that the dataagreed with expectations, and let it drop at that.


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Findings & Analysis

The findings and discussion chapter of

your research report should include:

1) Description of data, i.e., what you have

found. Do not include your personal

opinion here. Just report your findings.

2) Your analysis of the findings in terms of

the reviewed literatures. Here you relate

your findings with your research questions.


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Conclusion

The conclusion chapter of your

research report should include:

1) A quick summary of your findings.

2) Limitations of your research

3) Future directions


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Recommendation


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Appendix

Survey questionnaire

Interview questions


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Bibliography

How to use the APA referencing style

When quoting directly or indirectly from a source,

the source must be acknowledged in the text by

author nameand year of publication. If quoting directly, a location reference such as

the page number or paragraph number is also

required.

1. In text citation (Quotes/Paraphrasing)

a. Direct quotation

Use quotation marks and include page numbers.


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Bibliography

Samovar and Porter (1997) point out that

"language involves attaching meaning to

symbols" (p.188).

Alternatively: "Language involves attachingmeaning to symbols" (Samovar & Porter, 1997,

p.188).

A quotation of 40 or more words should be

formatted as a freestanding, indented block oftext without quotation marks. Note the location of

the final full stop.


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Bibliography

Weston (1948) argues that: One of the most important phases of our special

guests was to get information that would throw

light on degeneration of the facial pattern that

occurs so often in our modern civilization. Thishas its expression in the narrowing and

lengthening of the face and the development of

crooked teeth. (p. 174)

If you quote from online material and there are no

page numbers (e.g. HTML based document), use

the paragraph number (para.) instead.


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Bibliography

"Prevalence rates of antenatal major and minor

depression have been estimated in community-based

studies to range from 7% to 15% of all pregnancies"

(Grote, Swartz, Geibel & Zuckoff, 2009, para. 2). b.

Indirect quotation/paraphrasing Attaching meaning to symbols is considered to be the

origin of written language (Samovar & Porter, 1997).

N.B. Page numbers are optional when paraphrasing,

although authors are encouraged to include them,especially when it assists the reader to locate the

reference in long pieces of text (Publication Manual, p.

171).


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Bibliography

References must be listed in alphabetical order

by author.

References should use the hanging indent

format a. Books / Reports / DVDs

Each reference should include four elements:

(1) Author/Editor/Producer(2) Date(3) Title(4) Publication Information

e.g. King, M. (2000). Wrestling with the angel: A

life of Janet Frame.Auckland, New Zealand:

Viking.


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Glossary


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Index

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