Technical Report Writing

Course

Course duration: 2 days

Course cost : €465 Engineers Ireland & Engineers Skillnet member

                    €620 Engineers Ireland or Engineers Skillnet member

                    €745 Engineers Ireland but non-Engineers Skillnet member

Overview 

The aim of this course is to refine participants’ report writing skills and enable them to communicate more effectively with their readers.

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

Outline

Course Content

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 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.

Tiernan has worked with staff from many leading organisations in Ireland, has an MA in English, and prior to his university studies trained as a chartered accountant.