Tips & Examples of Report Writing - XII English Core

REPORT WRITING

A  few Trips

The general kinds of reports  are--

1.     Reporting for a newspaper

2.     Reporting for a magazine

3.     Reporting in the assembly

The format

1.       For newspaper:

Heading, By-line, Place, date, and responses to the questions what, where, when, who, how

2.                 For School magazine:

Heading, By-line and responses to the questions what, where, when, who, how (if it is a description of event)

3.       For reporting in the assembly:

Salutation, self introduction and the responses to the questions what, where, who, when and how

NEWS PAPER    REPORTS

1.     You are Ankit staff reporter of a national daily.  You were asked to cover a District Science Exhibition.  Mentioning all relevant details write a report.

2.     You are the staff reporter of a national daily.  Write a report for your newspaper on health camp that was organized.

3.     There was a rally organized by a youth organization against rampant corruption in the society.  As a reporter of “The Hindustan Times” write a report.

4.     Write a news report on a road accident you witnessed.

5.     A week long Aids Awareness Campaign was organized by your school.  Write a report of the same.

SCHOOL   MAGAZINE

6.     Five of your classmates attended a jamboree at Mysore.  Write a report for your school magazine.

7.     Your class students went on a cycle expedition as a part of obtaining Duke of Edinburgh award.  Write a report of the same.

8.     The vidyalaya’s Silver-Jubilee celebration has just concluded.  Write a brief report to be published in your school magazine.

9.     Despite studying many books in science, our students lack a scientific temperament. A seminar was organized in your school to instill scientific temperament among the students write a brief report.

10.      Write a report for your school magazine about the elections in your school.

ASSEMBLY   REPORTS

11.                  Your mathematics teacher has been honoured by the Lions’ Club for being nominated for the “Best Teacher Award”.  A report has to be read out in the school assembly by the head boy.  Prepare his speech. 

12.            You are an NCC cadet and participated in the RD parade. You have been asked by the unit officer to read out a report of your participation.

13.            You are the cultural secretary of your school you have been asked to present the annual report of CCA in your school.  Prepare the report.

14.            Your School’s N.S.S. Unit went on a cycling campaign creating awareness against plastics.  As the leader of the team prepare a report to be read out.

15.            There was a workshop organized by your school on puppet making.  Prepare a report to be read out in the school assembly.

Answers :

4.  

24 Killed in Road Accident

(Report By- Jaya Prakash)

Agra, August 17.Twenty-four people including a woman and a two-month baby were killed in a tragic road accident involving a truck and Tata Sumo at Najafgarh, a village 14 km from here.

The ill-fated Tata Sumo was carrying a marriage party from Delhi to Mathura. The truck carrying industrial goods to NOIDA collided head-on with Tata Sumo killing twelve of them on the spot.  The injured were immediately rushed to Dr, RML Hospital where eight succumbed to injuries.

The Police have registered a case against the truck driver and they are on a man hunt.

(Note: When a VIP attends the function, the function may become less important than the function itself. Study the following example).

1.

“Science holds India’s future” – Kalam

(by Nadeem)

Agra, Sep 20. It is science that holds the destiny of India’s future says Dr. A.P. J. Abdul Kalam.

Inaugurating a science exhibition in one of the schools here,  Dr. Kalam said that students will have to study science for its own sake and not for becoming a doctor or an engineer. “The development of the country much depends on the Scientists who could help solve problems faced by the nation in different fields” The dream of every citizen to see India as a super power will soon be fulfilled if the students’ energy and enthusiasm are properly channelised.      

The exhibition was organized under the aegis of Lion’ Club of Agra. Earlier during the day, he visited an orphanage and spoke to the children for over an hour and lunched with them

Note: Now study the following example where the exhibition is more important.

1 a)

Exhibition inaugurated

(by Sravan)

Agra, Aug.17. - A grand ten-day science exhibition was inaugurated at Gyana Bharati Residential School here yesterday. Forty schools from different parts of all states are participating in the exhibition. The theme of the exhibition is “Water Conservation”. “We hope this exhibition focuses on the need of the hour” said Dr. Bharatan, the convener of this exhibition.

Inaugurating the exhibition Mr. Justice Chaudhari (IRS) stressed on the need of students’ participation in creating social awareness on vital issues. Mr. Durai Swamy, the headmaster had made arrangements for the exhibition.

3 d)

Reporting for school Magazine:

TREKKING CAMP OF OUR NCC STUDENTS

          Reported by- Anjali Troop Captain

Forty students of our school NCC unit guided by Mr. R.B.Sachan, Programme Officer went on a ten-day trekking camp to Forests of Bhind (MP) summer holidays. We set out from our school campus of 10^th of May in a specially arranged bus.  We went up to Morena forest in the bus.  We started walking from there with the essential things packed in our hold-all.  We reached the wild areas of the forest of Bhind by evening. We raised our tent in convenient places near to a River Yamuna.  We prepared our dinner, dined in the moonlight and had a comfortable sleep. For the next 8 days we trekked around the near by hills.  It was a wonderful outdoor experience for the students. We returned to campus safely on 22^nd of May.

Report of Health Camp

HEALTH CAMP AT PARARAPATTI

(By Jaya Prakash)

Nagapatnam March 15, 750 people were benefited in the one-day medical camp organized jointly by the Lions Club and Apollo Hospitals, Chennai. 50 Doctors with an equal number of Paramedical staff went to Paparapatti, Village, 12 km from here.  The village had recently been affected by Malaria.  The state health department had conducted a similar medical camp ten days ago. Speaking to the press persons the head of the medical team Dr. Kasaiah said the lock of basic amenities could be one possible reason for the outburst.  He also said that his medical team would conduct a similar medical camp after a fortnight.Lt. Dr. Padmanabhan, Chairman of the Nagapatnam Chapter of the Lions’ Club had made elaborate arrangements for the camp.

REPORT ON CAREER COUNSELLING:

CAREER COUNSELLING

(by Raja)

          Tirupathi, 28 Dec, 2004. A career-counseling camp was organized for the students of class 12 of Mother Teresa School.

          Sri. J.A. Padmanabhan, Professor of Delhi University, inaugurated the counseling session. He expressed his views on the need for career counseling. He told that for the outgoing students of a school, career guidance is very essential.

          Mr.P.G.Rajendran, career counselor, talked to individuals and clarified their doubts. He explained the career avenues after 12^th class. He briefed about the unknown and unpopular courses and areas and distributed many pamphlets related to different careers and higher education complied from various sources.

REPORT ON PANEL DISCUSSION

BRAIN DRAIN

( BY RAJA)

          Trivandrum, 19 Dec, 2005 “The Problem of Brain Drain could be tackled very easily with the willing cooperation of students”. This was the finding of the students who listened to the panel discussion at the at St. Paul’s college Trivandrum.

          Inaugurating the Discussion, Dr. Charan Thomas, Dean of career studies M.G. University said the new Economic policy could provide avenues to the unemployed youth of the country.

          150 students from across the state were benefited out of the Panel Discussion.  Messrs. Mallikarjuna, Industrialist from Kadapa, Padmanabhan, Psychologist, Kiran Professor, S.V. University, were the members of the panel and the panel discussion was followed by a Brain Storming session on “ issues before the nation” moderated by Sri. J.A.Balakumar, Professor of Delhi University.

          In the post-lunch session, the participants had a group discussion on various issues related to Brain Drain.

          Dr. Kamalakar, Bursar of the venue college, had made elaborate arrangements.