In preparing your research report, you will use one of your sources, a journal article, as the format. To help you better visualize that format, our book can be useful with its general guidelines. For example, on pages 293-294 are outlines for both quantitative and qualitative reports. Depending on what type of research you are conducting, you can look use these outlines to guide your understanding of the journal article. How does it review the literature? How does it explain its methodology? And so on.

On another note, keep in front of you your research question and the data you wish to collect. Will the data answer the question? How will you collect the data? How will you present and interpret the data?