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Firstly, the report is an exercise in reviewing literature - the guru lecture provides the topic for this. The aim is not to provide a verbatim report of what the lecture was about, it is to explore some of the issues raised in the lecture using SOUND, ACADEMIC sources, or if this is not available (- which would be an extremely rare occurrence)  then other literature on the web.

By sound academic sources, I mean that you should primarily be using the following electronic databases

IEEE                                                   )

ACM                                                   )

ScienceDirect                                  )  if you haven't used these yet, you MUST!

Or googlescholar.com                   )

In order to locate sound peer reviewed journal articles, which you are going to use to develop arguments (pros and cons of something), support assertions made in your report, and generally demonstrate that you are an excellent, resourceful academic!

So I suggest the following:

(I am assuming that you have already picked a guru lecture, watched it through at least once and made notes on the main issues it covers)

1) Brief introduction to the topic, stating clearly the name and credentials of the presenter, the topic of the guru lecture etc ...

2) Next section giving a very brief overview of what the lecture was about and then setting out the interesting aspects that you are going to be covering in more detail  in your report.

3) Body of your review - here you will be discussing the topics you highlighted in 2) systematically, highlighting the main issues and what other academics have said about them, starting off with the most general, through to the most specific aspects.

So, you could start off with a definition of whatever it is you are discussing - even here, you may find that there are different viewpoints and various ways of defining XYZ:

XYZ has been defined as "blah blah blah" (Jones, 2013, p63)". However this has been seen as a rather narrow definition which does not take into consideration the ABC aspects of XYZ (Smith, 2014).  A more comprehensive definition is provided by Evans (2013) which incorporates both concepts and conveys the breadth of the topic blah blah...

This is the style of writing you should be aiming for - have a look at some academic journal articles.  Most definitely avoid these things:

'I' 'we' 'you' - and emotive language (fantastic, brilliant) to be banished from the report. This is supposed to be a rational, impartial, non-subjective report.  You are not providing your own musings and saying what you like and don't like about something, you are developing ideas, concepts and finding hard evidence from other distinguished academics to back you up!

(NOTE THE CITATIONS - YOU MUST BE ABLE TO CITE AND REFERENCE CORRECTLY - MAKE SURE YOU CAN DEMONSTRATE CORRECTLY ALL THE PERMUTATIONS -EG a direct quote (surname, date, page number), and idea (surname, date)  etc etc) If in doubt go to cite them right.

NB: remember that REFERENCES are only references if you have cited them somewhere in the body of your report. It is no good just having a long list of references at the end if you haven't used them anywhere.

The rest of the report is tackling the issues you raised at the start - this should be starting off with general, going down to more specific aspects.

The whole thing should be integrated with links provided from one topic/aspect to the next. Well argued, logical evaluation.  Above all you are trying to show you have researched aspects of the topic (using solid references)

Lecture - https://youtu.be/N1-9ndQrRx0 - IBM Martin Borrett 'An Industry Perspective of Cyber Security'