Apr02 Summary (C11 Writing Strategies for Reports and Proposals)

Chapter11 Summary

Reports are a highly structured form of writing often following conventions that have been laid down to produce a common format. Structure and convention in written reports stress the process by which the information was gathered as much as the information itself.
The following stages are involved in writing a report:
• clarifying your terms of reference
• planning your work
• collecting your information
• organizing and structuring your information
• writing the first draft
• checking and re-drafting.
There are two types of components of reports and design strategy they are; executive summary and sample executive summary. In executive summary typical sources of key points in a report are: headings, topic sentences, enumerations, cause and effect statements and essentials.
The skills involved in writing a report will help you to condense and focus information, drawing objective findings from detailed data.
The ability to express you clearly and succinctly is an important skill and is one that can be greatly enhanced by approaching each report in a planned and focused way.