Practical Report Writing

Writing a meaningful report

In my job at a busy public hospital I go through many reports sent in together with referrals for patients to be seen. The information contained in these reports determines how timely a patient has access to tertiary care facility. All your hard work is going to be locked up in a single piece of a paper the end of any study – it will either lead to reassurance, appropriate management or sometim...

Writing a qualitative research report.

A research project in nursing or nursing education is probably only complete once the findings have been published. This paper offers a format for writing a qualitative research report for publication. It suggests, at least, the following sections: introduction, aims of the study, review of the literature, sample, data collection methods, data analysis methods, findings, discussion, conclusion,...

Writing Across the Curriculum in College Chemistry: A Practical Bibliography

Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) has been a force in education for more than 25 years. Yet WAC in chemistry might seem still something of a mystery, especially for the chemist new to teaching or to the language studies teacher unfamiliar with conventions of thinking and writing in chemistry. Fortunately, teachers in higher education who wish to explore the uses of writing in chemistry have a...

Practical Resources for Writing Program Administrators: A Selected Bibliography

Practical Genericity: Writing Image Processing Algorithms Both Reusable and Efficient

An important topic for the image processing and pattern recognition community is the construction of open source and efficient libraries. An increasing number of software frameworks are said to be generic: they allow users to write reusable algorithms compatible with many input image types. However, this design choice is often made at the expense of performance. We present an approach to preser...