Professional Report and Writing Skills Course
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Professional Report and Writing Skills Course
Course Overview:
The Professional Report and Writing Skills courses have been tailored to seek an improvement in the participant's ability to prepare persuasive and well-constructed reports.
Attendees will complete the course capable of preparing easy to read reports, which will be purposeful, systematic, and time efficient.
The course includes logical arrangement of ideas, relevant vocabulary, and different types of illustrations and graphs in the text. It also addresses the basics of report writing, drafting and editing for technical, as well as non-technical, consumers.
This course is best suited to secretarial or administrative staff, technical and governmental report writers and professionals writing reports in their job functions.
Course Objectives:
By the end of the Professional Report and Writing Skills training course, participants will be able to:
- Confidently write reports that achieve results or objectives.
- Follow a systematic approach to reduce the time it takes to write.
- Structure the information to guide the reader logically through the text.
- Adopt a ‘reader-friendly’ style that creates understanding and maintains interest.
- Write persuasively using the relevant information and vocabulary to support your idea.
- Ensure that specialist and non-specialist readers will quickly read and understand your work.
- Edit your draft reports easily and constructively.
- Use diagrams, tables, and charts to support and enhance your text.
- Produce reports that achieve their goals.
Who Should Attend?
Professional Report and Writing Skills training course is ideal for:
- Secretarial or admin staff asked to write reports who find the task challenging.
- Anyone required to write technical reports as part of their career
- Anyone who works as a Writer
Course Outlines:
Overview of a Technical Report
- How to Analyze Audience Characteristics?
- Deciding on relevant information to help the report achieve its purpose
- Structuring and sequencing that creates order and encourages the reader to read on
Process of Writing
- Identifying the Sections of a Technical Report
- Use vocabulary that helps to understand and gets results
- Developing a persuasive tone to reinforce the argument
Identifying Mechanical Elements
- Fundamentals
- How sentences and paragraphs can give rhythm and pace to our writing
- Will my report get a positive response from my readers?
- How to edit and proofread effectively
Examining Methods of Research Papers
- Writing the Paper
- Gaining an understanding of how a report is structured – beginning, middle, and end
- Choosing the best format for your purpose
Developing a thesis statement
- How to Cite Sources
- Gaining an understanding of how a report is structured – beginning, middle, and end
- Choosing the best format for your purpose
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