To: Nancy Myers

From: Mason Setzer

Date: April 18, 2022
Subject: APLED 121-Chapter-17-Summery

CHAPTER 17
Report definition
 A specific from of writing that is organized around concisely identifying and examining issues,
events, or finding that has happened in a physical sense, such as events that have occurred
within an organization, findings, or from a research investigation.
Online reports
 Online reports provide a numerous benefit to both the organization and the individual. With
Speed convenience from a laptop or smartphone.
Types of reports
 Incidents reports
 Investigative reports
 Trip reports
 Feasibility/recommendation reports
 Research reports
 Proposals
Criteria for writing reports
Development
 Develop ideas based around:
 Who
 What
 Where
 Why
Audience
 Determine who will read your text, be prepared, and write accordingly
Style
 Style achieves conciseness by eliminating wordy phrases. Headings and subheading, and
graphics can be used to help communicate content.
Incident and Investigation Reports
 As the word investigate implies, an investigative report asks you to examine the causes behind
an incident.
Purpose and Examples
 Security: investigate the incident and report your findings
 Engineering: inspect, and report on the cause for a construction flaw.
  Computer technology: You must investigate the causes behind this technology glitch and solve
the problems.
Criteria trip reports
Introduction
 Document dates, destination of travel, motivation, who your traveled with, and authorization
for job-related travel.
Discussion
 Review of your observation, contacts, seminars attended, or difficulties encountered
Conclusion
 What you learn, accomplished, people met, sales made, and benefits made.
Recommendation
 Based on your opinion What action should happen next?
Purpose and examples
 When you lave your work site and travel for job-related purposes. Employers not only require
that you document your trip but also kept up to date on your work activities.
Criteria progress reports
 Introduction
 What are your objectives?
 Personal
 Previous activities

Discussion
 Should be the longest part of reports, explain work accomplished, problems occurred, and
work remaining.
Conclusion
 Sum up what you have achieved during this reporting period and provide your target
completion date.
Recommendations
 Recommend changes, scheduling, budget, or materials needed that will help meet
deadlines.
Purpose and examples
 Employers want to know what progress you are making on a project.
Criteria lab reports
Introduction
 Provide a purpose, why is the report being written? To include this use rationalization,
objectives, and authorization
Discussion
 How was the test performed? To best answer this provide details on apparatus and the
procedure.
Conclusion
 The conclusion presents your findings, what have you learned, or discovered, or
understand? Interpret your findings and implications
Recommendations
  What follow- up action should be taken.
 Purpose and examples write a lab report after you have performed the lab activity to share
your findings.
Criteria feasibility/ recommendation reports
Introduction
 Answer the following questions
 What is the purpose of this feasibility report?
 What problems motivated the study?
 Who initiated the feasibility study?
Discussion
 Include the criteria and analysis
Conclusion
 State the significance of your findings. Draw a conclusion from what you have found in
your study.
Recommendations
 Suggest what happens next. What actions should the company, organization, or client
does next.
Purpose and examples
 Determine the viability of a project is to perform a feasibility study to document the
findings and then to recommend the next course of action.
Criteria the writing process at work
The best way to accomplish a writing task is by the following the writing process.
Prewriting
 Use a simple topic outline to gather data and determine your objectives.
Writing
 Write a problem to solution rough draft.
Rewriting
 Review what you wrote, take suggestions from colleagues. Make sure that the report
meets the company’s standards for font, margin, and design.