Outline the Basic Structure of a Research Report Written for a Nonscholarly

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Essay

Outline the basic structure of a research report written for a nonscholarly interest group and explain how this differs in structure and style from a research report written for scholarly readers.

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Definitions:

Response Rates

The percentage of people who reply to a survey or query out of the total number of people who were asked.

Archival Research

A research method that involves the acquisition and analysis (or reanalysis) of existing information collected by others.

High Cost

Refers to situations where the expense, either emotional, financial, or time-related, is considered to be significant or excessive.

Causal Hypothesis

A statement predicting a cause-and-effect relationship between two or more variables.