Ch. 16 AHHHH
How do you satisfy multiple readers in the introduction?
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What are common types of short, informal reports?
Incident reports, trip reports, progress reports, lab reports, investigative reports
What is the writing style appropriate for a report?
Conciseness and highlighting techniques
When do you write a lab report?
Documents status and findings from a laboratory experiment, procedure, or study.
Why would you use e-mail, memo, or letter formats for short, informal reports?
E-mails are quick and let's the audience to quickly and conveniently access this and respond quickly; letters are used for an external audience; memos ar...
List the four basic units of a report?
Identification lines, headings and talking headings, introduction, discussion.
How do visual aids assist the reader in a report?
Visual aids help audiences understand and access content
When do you write a trip report?
When you leave work and travel for job related purposes, your supervisors require you document your expenses and work activities.
When do you write feasibility/recommendation report?
Studies practicality of a proposal plan and recommends action.
What do you include in the recommendation?
Suggest future action on what the company should do next
What do you include in a conclusion?
Summarize what you learned or what decisions you made regarding the activities reported
What types of material are included in the discussion section?
Summarize your activities, the problems you encountered, costs of equipment, warranty information and more.
What are purposes of a report?
Supply a record of work accomplished, records procedures, document current status, record problems encountered.
Explain how the reporter's questions can help you prepare your report?
They will lead you into what you want to say for each section, and help you develop ideas.
What do you include in the identification lines?
Date report is written, names of people who the report is written, the names of the people from whom the report is sent, subject of report
What organizational modes are useful for writing short, informal reports?
Organization modes include problem/solution, chronology, cause/effect, and others
What content do you include in meeting minutes?
Record who attended the meeting, when it began and ended, and where it took place; report topics discussed, decisions and plans for future
When do you write a progress report?
To document the status of an activity, explaining what work has been accomplished and what needs to be done.
When do you write an investigation report?
To examine the causes behind an incident. Focuses on why the event occurred.
When do you write an incident report?
When facing an unexpected problem that has occurred.