Technical report writing
Date: 26/27th August 2010 or 23/24th September 2010 or 28/29th October 2010 or 1/2nd December 2010
Time: 9.00 am to 5.00 pm. Registration and Tea/Coffee at 8.30am
Venue: Engineers Ireland, 22 Clyde Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4
Fee: Engineers Ireland members €620 / Non-members €745
CPD credit: 2
Course aim
To refine participants’ report writing skills and enable them to communicate more effectively with their readers.
Learning objectives
On completing this programme, participants will be able to:
- Plan reports in a more effective manner
- Recognise the generic features underlying all report structures
- Understand and overcome their own writing difficulties
- Structure reports more clearly
- Write with greater confidence
- Make more key decisions earlier in the reporting process
- Present information in a more reader-friendly style
Programme
- The key features of effective reports
- Managing time
- Clarifying the terms of reference
- Locating, recording and evaluating data
- Understanding how to make most effective use of each report section
- Standardising agreed layouts for reports
- Structuring reports to meet specific reader requirements
- Reporting with visual impact
- Writing clear and concise sentences
- Analysing reports
Trainer's profile
Tiernan Ivory, MA is a Communication Consultant with over ten years’ training experience. He specialises in developing course participants’ abilities in the areas of business writing, presentation skills, leadership skills, meeting management and time management.
Course contact
- CPD Training, Engineers Ireland
- T +353 1 665 1305 / F +353 1 665 1370
- E cpdtraining@engineersireland.ie