6.1 Introduction to Research Report

The research report = the research's public instrument — the findings' formal communication to the reader (the supervisor, the examiner, the court, the funder, the profession). The report's contract: the reader must be able to audit the study (from question to conclusion through the evidence's chain — the methods' transparency) and to verify the authorities (the citations' completeness — 6.4). The report's species: the thesis (the degree's submission), the research paper (the journal's currency), the project report (the funder's deliverable), the case brief-and- memorandum (the practice's daily report — Legal English's terrain, Semesters 1–2), and the court's own judgment (the report's judicial cousin — Procedural Law-I's reasoned-decision discipline).