Learning Objectives
- Present technical documentation in a report for a variety of situations and audiences.
- Gather data efficiently and select the relevant information for your readers.
- Choose words that support your message and do not distract your reader.
- Assess the best places to use graphics and choose the right image to support your content.
- Learn proofreading tricks to avoid typical business writing mistakes.
- Organize ideas using different tools into a clear, logical structure before beginning to write.
- Language selection and appropriate wording to use in report writing.
Modules
- Technical subject
- Purpose and objective
- Conveys information/facts/data
- Impersonal and conscience writing in technical fields
- Suitable writing style and format for technical environments
- Using references
- Determining your audience and choice of words and style
- Familiarity
- Education level
- Receptiveness
- Audience types and level of expertise
- Planning your writing
- Develop a timeline
- Create a statement of purpose
- Decide on an organizational style to arrange your ideas
- Compose an outline to express your ideas
- A style guide to good report writing
- Technical report style
- Achieving a good style
- Choosing your words carefully
- Principles for effective report writing
- Charting and visualization techniques
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