Effective Report & Technical Writing Skills (Three days)

Workshop is designed for participants to learn, practice and apply modern writing techniques and skills to produce high quality reports. All major tasks, campaigns, initiatives and projects are finally presented in the form of reports. Organizations therefore emphasize the importance of effective report writing and documentation. Using real life examples from the participants' organizations and work, the training will describe the process of constructing professional reports.

Objectives
To help participants understand fundamental principles and methods of report writing, adopt logical thought process, sift to organize writing material efficiently and produce well-structured reports.

Content

• How to write

  • Principles of writing

  • Paragraph development

  • Developing writing skills

• Writing Process

  • Pre-Writing: Analyzing audience, finding information, generating ideas and developing outline

  • Drafting: Drafting quickly, making it easy to expand, re-organizing later

  • Revising: How to revise, what to look for during revision

• Component of a technical report

  • Designing title & tables

  • Writing foreword, preface, summary, introduction, results, discussions, conclusions and recommendations

  • Writing end matter (references, bibliographies, glossaries and appendixes etc.)

• Editing the reports

  • Removing fat

  • Using active voice

  • Ordering sentences

  • Writing short sentences

  • Cutting dangling constructions

• Writing six common reports

  • Informational / Progress Report

  • Activity Report

  • Justification Report]

  • Troubleshooting Report

  • Analytical Report (Scientific Method)

  • Analytical Report (Yardstick Method)

  • Training Methodology/Activities

Learning Outcome

• Will know how to generate material for writing their reports

• Will understand the basic mechanics of writing

• Will be able to understand the difference between various types of reports

Who should attend
This workshop is suitable for working Professionals from any discipline or department of private or public organization and development sector organizations who are involved in technical writing.

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