Practical Skills: Writing Format

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Practical Skills Writing Format

• Report Writing

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Various Forms of Reports (p.1)
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Printed Form (p.3)

• very little writing
• simple

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Eye-witness Report (p.3)

• Report what you saw
• First person
• Chronological order

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Newspaper Report (p.4)

• You are the reporter
• Important information comes in the beginning

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Analytical Report in Full (p.5)

• Most formal
• A lot of research or investigation
• Procedures lead to the conclusions
  recommendations or solutions

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Writing a Full-form Report (p.6)
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Letter-form Report (p.8)

• Business letter with a report as the main body
• Same format as a business letter
• Shortened form of a full-form report

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Memo-Form (p.10)

• A memo containing a report as the main body
• 1st paragraph referring the reader to the report
• Content findings, conclusions, recommendations
• Mostly replaced by the format of emails now

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The End