Advanced Report Writing

Course covers unit standards 12153 and 110023 at NQF level 4 worth 11 credits

A Services Seta certificate will be issued on submission of a portfolio of evidence by the learner.

4 Day course

• Writing and improving the quality of business and technical reports.

• Compile technical reports ensuring content and format are appropriate.

• Discuss the focus of the report – deciding on correct content.

• Meeting reporting deadlines.

• How to select, format, structure and layout reports: including headings, bullets and numbering.

• Ensure the document sequence is logical and meaningful.

• How to present information differently: text, graphs, tables,

flow charts and diagrams.

• Organising and structuring a technical text appropriately.

• Presenting the same information in different ways.

• Technical reports

• General reports

• Report checklists

• Topic or subject matter

• Purpose of the report

• Scope of the report

• Section identification systems

• Referencing

• Table of contents

• Stages of report production

• Checklist for editing our work

• Appendix: homophones and parts of speech