Technical Report Writing (CPD accredited)
Effective communication in the engineering field is of vital importance. Your managers/clients will base their decisions on what is reflected in your report. The ability to produce a clear, concise and professional report is a skill that you can develop in order to be successful.
Course Framework
• What is communication
• The communication process
• Why people misunderstand each other
• Consequences of providing incorrect information
• Communicating with non-technical readers
• Using e-mails
• Principles of clear writing
• Grammar, style, tenses, punctuations
• Report writing process
• Planning the objective of report, structure and readership
• Research tools
• Organise the collected information
• Structure of reports and their intended use
• Writing process of reports
• Present report effectively with PowerPoint
• Formats and examples of various business reports
• Structure of technical reports
• How to use Citation and references
• Equations
• Write (Format, fonts, headers, footers, etc.)
• Conventions when using numbers
• Illustrating the report with figures and tables
• Effective conclusion writing
• Summaries
• Executive summaries
• Capitalisation and abbreviation conventions
• Common errors in reports
• CD with technical report templates
• Practical applications - delegates to bring a report of their own to work on
Time: 08:00 - 05:00
Venue: CESA, Bryanston