Some of you may view the process of writing your project report and presenting it orally
as an exciting prospect. However, it is more likely that you will approach this stage of
your research with a mixture of resignation and trepidation. This is a great pity. We
believe that writing about your work is the most effective way of clarifying your
thoughts. This suggests that writing should not be seen as the last stage of your research
but thought of as something that is continuous throughout the research process.
Writing is a powerful way of learning (Griffiths, 1993). Most teachers will tell you that
the best way to learn is to teach. This is because of the necessity to understand something
thoroughly yourself before you can begin to explain it to others. This is the position you
are in as the writer of your project report. You have to explain a highly complex set of
ideas and facts to an audience that you must assume has little or no knowledge of your
subject. There is another problem here, which has a parallel with teaching. Often, the
more familiar you are with a subject, the more difficult it is to explain it to others with
no knowledge of that subject. You will be so familiar with your subject that, like the
teacher, you will find it difficult to put yourself in the place of the reader. The result of
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this is that you may fail to explain something that you assume the reader will know. Even
worse, you may leave out important material that should be included.
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