\documentstyle[fullpage,doublespace]{report}The first line says what sort of document to make (a doublespaced report with normal margins).
\author{Your Name Here}
\title{Your Title Here}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\tableofcontents
The second and third lines give the information to put on the title page.
The fourth line says Start the document, and the fifth means Make a titlepage, and put it here, and the sixth Make a table of contents, and put it here.
\chapter{Your Chapter Title Here}You can also have other levels of header:
\section{Your Section title Here}It isn't necessary to use all these levels, and you probably wouldn't want to for most reports.
\subsection{Your Subsection title here}
\subsubsection{Your subsubsection title here}
\paragraph{Your paragraph title here}
\end{document}
latex filename(You'll need to latex twice in a row the first time you do this, to make sure that the table of contents gets properly generated.) If there aren't any errors in formatting, this will produce a .dvi file. You can view what this file will look like printed out by typing:
xdvi filename.dvi &If you want to print it out, you'd type:
dvips -Pprintername filename.dvi