Professional Documents
Culture Documents
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
COMMUNICATING INFORMATION
TOPICAL OUTLINE
• Planning and structuring your document
• Using the power of text in presentations
OBJECTIVES
• Identify the features of clear written
communication
• Evaluate your writing style
• Plan an effective presentation
• Develop notes and visual aids to support
your presentation.
PLANNING AND STRUCTURING YOUR DOCUMENT
Purpose
An important aspect of this is the purpose of
the document, which you need to be absolutely
clear about:
• What do you want your readers to do?
• What outcome do you want to achieve?
PLANNING AND STRUCTURING YOUR DOCUMENT
Readers
An essential step in planning a document is to
put yourself in the reader’s shoes, and to try to
predict how they will understand and react to
it.
PLANNING AND STRUCTURING YOUR DOCUMENT
Structure