List at least five ethical guidelines to follow when writing a research report. Explain the importance of each.

What will be an ideal response?

Provide an honest accounting of how the research was carried out and where the initial research design had to be changed, evaluate honestly the strengths and weaknesses of your research design, refer to prior research and interpret your findings within the body of literature resulting from the prior research, maintain a full record of the research project so that questions can be answered if they arise, avoid “lying with statistics” or using graphs to mislead, acknowledge the sponsors of the research, thank staff who made major contributions, and be sure that the order of authorship for coauthored reports is discussed in advance and reflects agreed on principles.