Overview
This course will consist of:
- practical tips – on planning, writing and editing reports
- skill-building writing exercises – designed to reinforce key learning points
- review sessions – focussing on reports written by Council employees
This course will enable you to
- lay the foundations for an effective report
- avoid the most common report writing mistakes
- understand and address their readers’ aims and needs
- write clearly and concisely, minimising complicated language
- review and edit their reports to achieve a more professional end result
- learn a useful technique to speed up the writing process
- discover a key test which all business documents must pass
- find out about a neat trick to quickly find good alternative words and phrases
- learn simple tips used by professional writers to make their words more accessible
Who is the Course aimed at
Anyone who writes reports. However this course will also benefit all employees who are involved in any written communication – emails, letters, briefing documents, minutes of meetings, web content and intranet content.
