Writing for Business Report Writing

Duration: 1 Day

Who Should Attend?

Managers or staff who wish to improve their written communication skills and report writing.

Learning Objectives

• Produce a piece of business writing for a defined purpose
• Produce a piece of business writing that satisfies an organisation’s business writing conventions
• Use effective and appropriate tone, language and level of formality to meet specified standards when writing for a business purpose
• Incorporate basic statistics and visual material in the content or in an appendix

Course Content

• The value of the written word in avoiding errors and providing permanent records
• Image, structure, layout conventions including  “house styles”
• The purpose and conventions of letters, memos, reports and e-mails in use within the organisation
• Planning for writing, including use of available information and the needs of the recipient
• The importance of objectives and the reader
• Report structures – to meet standard and specific requirements
• Incorporation of statistics and visual materials, and the use of appendices to enhance understanding
• Effective and appropriate use of tone, language, level of formality in a range of cases