SAQA Alignment: US 110023 “Present information in report format”

NFQ Level: Level 4, 6 Credits

Duration: 2 Days

This two day report writing workshop will focus on helping the participants to learn, practise and apply good report writing techniques.

Good reports always create a positive impression on readers and help channel inter and intra official correspondence. All organisations appreciate effective and communicative documentation. This necessitates writers, managers and researchers to acquire skills in effective writing through appropriate training.

Objectives
This report writing course has been designed specifically for people who are required to write commercial or technical reports. This course helps you to build your business report writing skills, by taking you step by step through the principles and process involved in producing an effective report. On completion you will understand the fundamental principles of report writing, adopt logical thought process, sift material efficiently and produce well structured and tailored reports.

Methodolgy
The course methodology will be participatory. Session plans are developed around experience-sharing and group work in addition to lectures, practices and presentations. Based on the feedback on earlier training programmes, sessions have been planned to optimise satisfaction of the participants and achieve the objectives of the workshop. Participants will receive close guidance individually and in groups while participating in actual report writing.

B = Brief: understand why you are writing the document
A = Audience: consider who will read it
S = Structure: plan your writing so that it follows a logical structure
D = Draft: write the first draft
E = Edit: edit and polish it
L = Leave It: put it to one side and come back to it
L = Learn: get feedback from the readers