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Training Course Summary:

This programme gives participants the skills to write persuasive and coherent reports, help them to organise information and, more importantly, communicate powerful ideas to support decision-making.

Who Should Attend:

Anyone who needs to improve their written communication style and technique.

Training Course Overview/Content:

Introduction & Objectives

Communicating on paper
• General principles
• Managing information

Reports as tools of management
• Functions of reports
• Writing for different types of reader
• Time management

Planning the report
• Creating a statement of purpose
• Clarifying and checking the report’s message
• Organising information
• Practical exercises in planning a report

Constructing an outline
• Control criteria
• Practical exercise: preparing an outline

From outline to first draft
• Essential apparatus of a report
• Functions of prose; techniques of explanation
• Summaries and introductions
• Practical work: developing the outline; identifying necessary prose techniques

Editing the report
• Paragraphs
• Sentences: length and construction
• Choosing the best words
• Plain English
• Practical exercises: editing for clarity

Action session
• Participants commit themselves to actions they will take as a result of attending

Review of Programme