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\r\n\r\nProgress reports are common and critical documents in science and engineering, typically when you are part of a research team reporting to a funding agency about your progress on work you are doing for that agency. The basic point of a progress report is to summarize the status, progress, and likely future for a particular project. In a progress report you are often expected to commit to an exact schedule for the project completion, discuss the status of the materials being used and account for the money spent, and summarize concretely both the current findings and the predicted results. The professionalism of the progress report is often vital to the future of the project.\r\n\r\nIn classes and projects involving writing, progress reports are used as a way for you to summarize your progress to your teacher or advisor, who will typically give feedback on whether he or she is satisfied with your progress. These reports could feel like a mere formality or a waste of time to you, but they are an excellent opportunity to articulate some of the key sentences of your final report and even pose questions in writing to your audience. The rules for writing progress reports are a lot more flexible in a classroom or lab than they are on the job, with a lot less at stake, so you should take full advantage of the opportunity for practice.\r\n
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Self-Study<\/h3>\r\nFor more ideas on writing progress reports, I recommend that you visit:\r\n\r\n\"Progress Reports\"\u00a0article from the Department of Engineering at Penn State<\/a>\r\n\r\n\"Guidelines for Writing Reports\" from networklearning.org<\/a>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n

Style for Progress Reports<\/h2>\r\nThe following stylistic advice can be applied to most progress reports you write:\r\n