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Written reports are documents which present specific, focused content—often the result of an experiment, investigation, or inquiry—to a specific audience. The audience may be public or private, an individual or the public in general. Reports are used in government, business, education, and science.

Reports often use persuasive elements, such as graphics, images, voice, or specialized vocabulary in order to persuade that specific audience to undertake an action. One of the most common formats for presenting reports is IMRAD: Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion.This structure is standard for the genre because it mirrors the traditional publication of scientific research and summons the ethos of that discipline. Reports are not required to follow this pattern, however, and some do use the problem-solution format.

Additional elements often used to persuade readers include: headings to indicate topics, to more complex formats including charts, tables, figures, pictures, tables of contents, abstracts, summaries, appendices, footnotes, hyperlinks, and references.

Some examples of reports are: scientific reports, recommendation reports, white papers, annual reports, auditor's reports, workplace reports, census reports, trip reports, progress reports, investigative reports, budget reports, policy reports, demographic reports, credit reports, appraisal reports, inspection reports, military reports, bound reports, etc. hello

Contents 1 Enterprise reporting 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Enterprise reporting

With the dramatic expansion of information technology, and the desire for increased competitiveness in corporations, there has been an increase in the use of computing power to produce unified reports which join different views of the enterprise in one place.^[1] Termed Enterprise Reporting, this process involves querying data sources with different logical models to produce a human readable report. A computer user has to query the Human Resources databases and the Capital Improvements databases to show how efficiently space is being used across an entire corporation.

Enterprise Reporting is a fundamental part of the larger movement towards improved Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management. Often implementation involves Extract, Transform and Load (See ETL) procedures into a reporting data warehouse and then use of one or more reporting tools. While reports can be distributed in print form or via email, they are typically accessed via a corporate intranet.

[edit] See also

• BIRT Project, for open source Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools, and
• KNIME, an open source data analytics framework which integrates BIRT
• Customer Relationship Management
• Data quality
• Enterprise Application Integration
• Enterprise Resource Planning
• Decision Support System
• Global Reporting Initiative
• Management Information Systems
• Grey Literature International Steering Committee International guidelines for the production of scientific and technical reports

[edit] References

Reports or an explanation about them:

• Link, Morton and Hill, Winfrey (1970). Hill-Link Minority Report of the Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography. Random House.
• United States Immigration Commission (1911). Abstracts Of Reports Of The Immigration Commission, With Conclusions And Recommendations And Views Of The Minority. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 1436616131.

The process of writing reports:

• Blicq, Ronald (2003). "Technically-Write!". Prentice Hall. ISBN 0131148788.
• Gerson, Sharon and Gerson, Steven (2005). Technical Writing: Process and Product. Prentice Hall. ISBN 0131196642.
• Lannon, John (2007). Technical Communication. Longman. ISBN 0205559573.

[edit] External links

• A Guide to Enterprise Reporting
• Attorney General's Commission on Pornography — U.S. Government study, 1986
• VerticalGrowth — Report about overpopulation and blimps. Open source for editing.
• GLISC - Guidelines for the production of scientific and technical reports