Effective Report Writing Workshop

Course details

• Consider the data needed to start a report with
• Identify ways to improve your current practices in report writing
• The 7 C's in business writing
• The right approach for reporting various situations
• Using graphics properly in reports
• Content management for reports and coherence in writing

• Why Reporting
• Types of Reports
• Planning for Report writing
• Gathering Information
• Practice work: Preparing a work plan for the report
• Planning Informative Reports
• Organizational Strategies for Informative Reports
• Planning Analytical Reports
• Organizational strategies for analytical reports
• Drafting report content
• Report Introduction and body
• (Practice work: Writing the introduction part for the report)
• Using technology to craft reports
• Placing Graphics in the Report
• Constructing textual graphics
• Some general types of Short Reports
• (Practice work: Writing body of the report)
• Direct and indirect approach to writing
• The 7 C's in writing
• The "You" approach in report writing
• The art of proof reading
• Packaging ethics for reports Oral, telephonic and email reporting hints and ethics