Writing Reports

Abstract

‘Write a report’ – the very thought fills people with horror. Reports seem to be the thing people dread writing more than anything else. If you feel like this then you are in good company. This chapter will: discuss ‘the report’ in general, the different types of report and the essentials of a good report show how reports, whether long or short, simple or formal, have the same fundamental structure describe the ‘signposting’ system that reports use to guide the reader along the route explain the topping and tailing of longer reports