Writing Reports & Proposals

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Writing Reports & Proposals

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Description

An effective report or proposal is one which achieves its objectives – whether those objectives are to inform, persuade, win business, make recommendations or help the management decision-making process. Unfortunately many writers lose sight of their objectives, fail to include the relevant information or fail to structure their documents to make relevance and significance clear. They may also lose their readers' attention by adopting a turgid style or peppering their documents with spelling, grammar and proofreading errors.

ProSeminar's Writing Reports & Proposals course has been designed to help anyone who has…

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An effective report or proposal is one which achieves its objectives – whether those objectives are to inform, persuade, win business, make recommendations or help the management decision-making process. Unfortunately many writers lose sight of their objectives, fail to include the relevant information or fail to structure their documents to make relevance and significance clear. They may also lose their readers' attention by adopting a turgid style or peppering their documents with spelling, grammar and proofreading errors.

ProSeminar's Writing Reports & Proposals course has been designed to help anyone who has to write complex reports and proposals enhance their effectiveness and ensure that they are 'reader-friendly'.

Course Membership

  • All managers and professionals who write complex reports or proposals.

  • Secretarial and other staff who have to edit and improve draft reports/proposals.

Course Objectives
This course will help participants to:

  • produce well-structured and professionally presented reports and proposalsthat meet their defined objectives

  • identify and address readers' needs

  • use clear and concise language and select appropriate styles of English

  • adopt a structured approach to the writing process and schedule their time accordingly

  • use technology to make the most effective use of their time

Course Outline

  • Introduction to writing reports & proposals

  • Understanding the reader's needs

  • Scheduling the writing process

  • Techniques for getting started - brainstorming and visual mapping

  • Collecting and selecting the information

  • Structuring the report/proposal

  • Making and supporting a case

  • Layout devices and conventions

  • Style and tone

  • Sentence and paragraph structure

  • Choosing the right words

  • Readability statistics

  • Grammar, spelling and punctuation

  • Presenting facts and figures in interesting and memorable ways

  • Proofreading and editing

Writing Reports & Proposals also reviews helpful MS Word tools such as style headings, outline view, document maps, track changes, split screen etc.

Course Methods

ProSeminar's Writing Reports & Proposals is informal and interactive.Participants are asked to bring samples of their own material allowing them to relate principles to their own writing and identify specific ways of enhancing its effectiveness for the future.

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