PHILIPPINE NORMAL UNIVERSITY

The National Center for Teacher Education

Institute of Knowledge Management
School of Information and Knowledge
Management
Taft Avenue, Manila

Technical Report
(A Written Report)

Presented To:
Dr. Linda M. Tayona

In Partial Fulfillment
Of The Course Requirement
In Library and Information Science 12
(Special Materials)

Submitted By:
Tuvilleja, Jahlen M.
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Second Semester
A. Y. 2014 2015
TECHNICAL REPORTS

I.

DEFINITION

According to the ANSI (1983), a technical report is a document that

gives the result of research or developmental investigations, or both,
or other technical studies.

A technical report (also: scientific report) is a document that describes

the process, progress, or results of technical or scientific research or
the state of a technical or scientific research problem.

II.

NATURE AND CHARACTERISTICS

NATURE
A technical report should be clear, concise, and complete, with
assumptions

plainly

identified

and

data

presented

(including

their

uncertainty) with precise logic, with relevance to practices described, and

with actual accomplishments of the work clearly stated and honestly
appraised. It should be technically sound and free from personalities and
commercial bias (whenever possible). (ASME, 2008)

Also, it is a document written by a researcher detailing the results of a

project and submitted to the sponsor of that project.

CHARACTERISTICS
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may be published before the corresponding journal literature

content may be more detailed than the corresponding journal
literature, although there may be less background information since

the sponsor already knows it

are usually not peer reviewed unless the report is separately published

as journal literature
classified and export controlled reports have restricted access.

III.

FUNCTIONS

are today a major source of scientific and technical information. They

are prepared for internal or wider distribution by many organizations,
most of which lack the extensive editing and printing facilities of

IV.

commercial publishers.
are often prepared for sponsors of research projects.
ACQUISITION

is initially submitted to the person or body for which the investigation

was carried out or by which it was sponsored. Copies of it may
subsequently be made available in limited quantities, but these copies
are not produced commercially and are not available from booksellers

or other commercial sources.

Be readily available to as broad as an audience as allowed to facilitate
research and to promote general education goals

V.

ORGANIZATION

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are usually published irregularly, either in series or as separate

monographs.
Technical reports are not typeset but are reproduced from typescript by
near-print processes, and they are usually concerned with only one
specific subject or with a few closely related subjects.

VI.

VII.

STORAGE & RETRIEVAL

Adopt an easy navigational structure.
Preserve and conserve both print and digital formats
Classification or Distribution information is provided
REFERENCES
Technical Reports: Definition. (2014). Retrieved November 28, 2014
from
GeorgiaTech:
http://libguides.gatech.edu/c.php?
g=53991&p=348582
NISO: National Information Standards Organization. (2005). Scientific
and Technical Reports. Retrieved November 28, 2014 from
http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/12038/Z39_18_
2005_R2010.pdf
Technical Reports. (n.d.). Retrieved November 28, 2014 from OCLC:
http://oclc.org/bibformats/en/specialcataloging.html#CHDJHJDI
San Andrs, L. (2008). What makes a good technical report?. Retrieved
November
28,
2014
from
http://rotorlab.tamu.edu/me489/README/The%20qualities%20of
%20a%20good%20technical%20report.pdf
Technical Report Guidelines. (n.d.). Retrieved November 28, 2014 from
http://www4.uwm.edu/Org/was/WASurvey/WAS_Guidlines_files/Techni
cal_Reports_Guidelines.pdf
Technical Report. (n.d.). Retrieved November 28, 2014 from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_report

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