Report Writing

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Detailed Course Content
1. Proposals are not reports 1
How are reports and proposals different?
A review of the essential report-writing questions
2. Phase 1: Decisions and preparations
Overview: seven key questions you must answer
What’s my goal?
Current situation: What problem or opportunity are my readers faced with?
Deliverables: What results will I deliver?
Solution: How will I deliver these results?
Experience: Why should my readers believe that I can deliver these results?
Costs: How can I justify the cost of these results?
Benefits: Why should my readers want these results?
Summary of the pre-writing process
3. Phase 2: Assembling the proposal
Covering letter
Title page
Executive summary
Table of contents
Glossary of terms
Background
Results and solution
Experience
Cost summary
Financial details
Benefits
Risks assessment weaknesses
Optional components
4. Plain English
What is plain English?
Key 1: Impress them with simplicity
Key 2: Impress them with brevity
Key 3: Impress them with your style
Chapter summary
5. The politics of persuasion
The six tendencies that lead to ‘yes’
Reciprocity
Consistency
Social validation
Being liked
Authority
Scarcity
  Updated on 13 March, 2023