English Business & Report Writing Skills
Audience:
All personnel whose jobs require them to write business and technical reports
will find this course beneficial. It will be particularly of benefit and interest
to project and process engineers, proposal writers and other professionals who
require assistance in developing their writing skills.
Course Objective:
This course is designed to provide participants with the practical
skills and knowledge required for the preparation of effective technical reports.
Participants can expect to go through the various phases of report production,
data collection, methodology and rationale. Time will be given to the
presentation and structure of reports and the use of illustrations and graphs.
Relevant case studies will be exercised throughout the course.
By the end of the course participants will:-
- Understand a variety of
business and technical report formats
- Be able to produce an effective business and/or technical report in
a relevant field
- Be skilled in business and technical report presentation and
structure
- Be able to use technical illustration and data effectively
- Be familiar with the terminology of a standard technical report
- Be skilled in material selection for any technical report
- Give due consideration to the report readership
- Have a good working
knowledge of appropriate
grammatical structure and style
Course Outline:
- Communications
- Principles of writing
- Types of reports e.g. business / technical proposals/progress
reports/justification reports
- Feasibility reports/ data analysis/evaluation
- Audits/ technical reports etc..
- Classification of reports
- Preparation of reports
- Presentation and structure of reports
- Technical report illustration
- Graphs, tables and diagrams
- Case studies
- Participants’ production and discussion of a technical report