When conducting your own research, it is important to record your work in a way so that others can and want to build on it, but how do you do that? The research report offers a standard structure for this, so that the most important parts are sure to be covered. In addition, it is important to pay attention to your writing style, so that your work comes across as professional and convincing. This building block explains the standard structure of a research report and provides tips for the writing process and business writing. This is a HBO-IT building block for Research in Education.