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This is a useful way of thinking about your writing in three phases.
Outline what you are going to cover in the report. In other words,
provide a summary of the key points. Then write the report (this will
cover the bulk of the document). At the end, go over the main points
again. This may sound repetitive and tedious.
What you are trying to do however, is to reinforce the messages you
want to get across. You are not repeating word for word, but
representing your major points in a slightly different way.
You will find that this structure covers this three‐stage format, but
goes into more detail about what to put in the middle, the main body
of the report.
There is no one set way of structuring a report. The example at the end
of the booklet deviates slightly from the framework given below, but
nevertheless the impact is present and it is quite coherent. We have
found however that most reports fit neatly into the simple framework.
In the outline shown in Figure 7, we have not mentioned the title page,
table of contents, appendices and bibliography. We cover these in the
more detailed explanation of report structures later.

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