Module 23

In Module 23, the author talks about Short Reports. In this chapter you will learn how to select patterns for short business report organization, apply strategies for short business report organization, apply principles for good business report style, and lastly apply stratregies for specific and polite question use. Different kind of reports use different patterns of organization. For example, an informative or closure report summarizes work or research that does not result in action or recommendation. Feasability reports evaluate several alternatives and commend one of them. Lastly, justification reports recommend or justify a purchase, investment, hiring, or change in policy. There are also basic strategies for organizing information, seven basic patterns are: Comparison/Contrast; Problem-solution; Elimination of alternatives; General to particular or particular to general; geographic or spatial; functional; and chronological. Lastly, there are three main points to apply to any kind of writing, but particular to reports, being say what you mean, tighten your writing, and use blueprints, transititions, topic sentences, and heading to make your organization clear to your reader.