Developing Effective Report Writing Skills

As your career grows and advances, you will be asked to write reports – these may be proposals for new ideas, evaluations of an initiative or a recommendation for a new service or product. Your organisation will expect a professional and well-written document to base important decisions upon.

The course has been carefully designed to follow an established and successful process. Complex concepts are clearly explained, obstacles are identified and you will be taught useful tools and techniques to overcome them.

Course Outline:

• The functions of communication
• Barriers to effective communication
• Report writing skills – Sentences; tips on joining words and punctuation
• Some common report writing faults to avoid
• Writing good paragraphs
• Transitions and ordering the parts
• Overcoming writer’s block: subjectivity; objectivity and bias
• Writing of: project proposals and technical reports
• Project progress report template
• Revising and editing