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Report writing
Posted by: Rob Ashton
14 / 06 / 16
For many people, feeling they have nothing to say is one of their biggest writing challenges. (Unfortunately, there are many more who have nothing to say yet write anyway. We’ll come to that in a second.) This is something that much advice on beating writer’s block – which focuses on how to get started – […]
Posted by: Catie Holdridge
02 / 06 / 16
Some documents succeed or fail based on how well they get key points across in the shortest time possible. If you need to write a document like this, you must remember one crucial detail. A detail that people don’t necessarily like to talk about. Here it is: Your document might not be read to the […]
05 / 04 / 16
Sometimes we can’t remember why we do things a certain way. This is certainly the case with company reports and other documents. It may not always be the best way – far from it – but that’s the way they’re written and that’s that. ‘We must always start with two pages of background,’ explains a […]
Posted by: Cathy Dann
20 / 05 / 14
Last week, in our post on units and spaces, we asked you to take a short survey. We’re delighted to report that 130 people did – and here are the results. Overall, most of you were in favour of closing up the number and unit, with four fifths preferring ‘1.75cm’ to ‘1.75 cm’. However, this […]
Posted by: Patrick Neylan
19 / 08 / 12
Annual reports should be focused, well written and dynamic – and, above all, they mustn’t shy away from giving a clear and accurate message. A good place to begin when you need to write one (or, indeed, any other document), is with a question. Why do you write? This isn’t as foolish a question as […]
Posted by: em-admin
28 / 09 / 10
You may have just written the best report of your career, but it’s vital that your executive summary is at least as gripping: it’ll be all some of your readers have time to read. Still, for those of you equally short on time, try our audio tips to hear trainer Kathy Gemmell explain how to […]
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