EDITING A REPORT

A report is based on issues, events or incidents that have actually taken place. The reporter must have witnessed or heard about the event.

A report can take the form of a formal letter or a newspaper article. When a report is written as a newspaper article, the following must be taken into consideration:

• It should have a captivating title.
• It should provide an interesting introduction that indicates what, where, when, why and how the event took place.
• It should be written in reported speech and in the third-person point of view.
• Since it is an event that took place in the past, the main tense to be used is the past tense.
• A report should have a conclusion in which a writer expresses his/her opinion or provides a possible solution to the problem.