Every person that is responsible for submitting reports of a technical nature. This includes but not limited to engineers, managers, assistants, project managers, site foremen and secretaries.
Course Overview
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.
This course is designed to provide learners with the following:
An understanding of how to represent technical information in a report
The importance of the correct use of tenses and grammar
Principles of effective, clear and concise writing
Understanding of how technical reports should be planned and structured
Formats and styles used in business reports
Knowledge on avoiding the pitfalls of poor punctuation
Understanding of when and where to include tables and figures
Knowledge of how to effectively abbreviate in a report
How to clarify jargon used in a report
Technical report writing principles and templates
Course Framework
Introduction to communication
Communication process and barriers
What to do to write effectively?
Basic grammar principles with tenses
Correct use of punctuations
Capitalisation and abbreviation conventions
Third person writing
23 Principles of clear writing
Compiling business reports
Planning the objective of report, structure and readership
Organise the collected/researched information
Writing process
Scientific writing tips
Writing an introduction, discussion, conclusion, appendix and summaries
Various report structures and purpose
Compiling technical reports
Presenting equations
Preferred format settings
Reference/Citation/Bibliography
Number conventions used
Diagram use in reports
Complaints about technical reports
Checking phase and common errors
Presenter: Sandra Pienaar
Delegates can claim 2 ECSA CPD Points
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