Effective Report Writing

Course details

Aims of the Effective Report writing course:

• To improve SCH’s staff ability to write effective reports in English,
• To familiarize participants with the structure of reports,
• To expand participants business English vocabulary and phrases typically used in reports,
• To practice analytical approach to participants writing by looking critically on written assignments,
• To increase grammar awareness
• To practice punctuation, register and style reports

In class the participants will:

• Get familiar with different types of reports
• Improve formal writing by frequent exposure to writing assignments,
• Practice coherence and learn how to avoid wordiness,
• Practice correct spelling and punctuation by analyzing their writing and by various exercises on error correction
• Use proper collocations, synonyms and antonyms naturally and effectively,
• Be aware of major differences in British and American spelling.

Effective Report writing Course – What will it cover?

Preparing and planning a good report

• Aim of writing
• Setting objectives, assessing your readership, organizing ideas
• Research, how to make notes, deciding what information you will need,
• Summaries, outlines, skeletal framework
• Draft

Obtaining data/information

• Sorting and classifying your findings
• Evaluating your findings
• Checking your findings
• Summary

Writing your report

• Pre-writing stage
• Drafting the main body and appendixes
• Drafting introduction, conclusions, recommendations
• Checking and amending the report

Presentation of the report

• Presentation, structure and style
• General layout
• Bullet points
• Fonts
• Headers, footers and page numbers
• Using images, tables, charts and diagrams
• Logical ordering
• Register, tone, increasing vocabulary

Improving presentation of your report

• Word processing and desktop publishing
• Layout and design – summary
• Illustrations, colors