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Report Writing- Types, Purpose and Audience
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- Types and Purpose of Reports
- Informative report: inform, explain and educate.Field trip report: share an experience of a visit.Newspaper report: provide a summary of a current event. Investigative report: investigate an issue of relevance and present findings. Incident/accident report: summarize what occurred in an incident.Eye-witness report: recount details from a person about an incident/event.Proposal report: present data based on an issue and recommend changes.
- Importance of Audience
- In all reports, always consider the audience in order to know the language to use. The technical vocabulary must be able to be understood by the audience who will be reading the report.Ask yourself two questions: For Whom is this report and Why would they need to read this report?This would help you to focus on your written text.
- Examples: Who is the Audience?
- A Field trip - the school teacher and other students.A newspaper report - the general public.An investigative report-the general public or the affected parties.A proposal report based on improving recreational activities at the school - the administration and students of the entire school.
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