Courseware and Training Materials

What's included?
What’s included?
Available for delivery as a download from our web server or provided on CD, this courseware package includes the following resources to make your trainer’s life much, much easier.

This courseware package includes:

	Student Manual. Fully customisable. May be opened in any wordprocessor and changed to meet your exact needs.
	Trainer manual. Fully customisable with additional information for trainers.
	Ice breakers and class activities. Fully customisable. Delivered as a folder full of activities for your students.
	Content overview. Fully customisable. Comprehensive course overview to help you market your course to your customers.
	PowerPoint presentations. Fully customisable. Complete set of PowerPoint slides for use by the trainer.
	Sales information sheets. Fully customisable. Information sheets to help you sell your course to your employees or external customers.
	Additional reading… Fully customisable. Give your students some recommended further reading materials for this course.

To get started, just open this ‘Writing Reports and Proposals’ training courseware in your favourite word processor. You can fully customise the materials to suit your exact learning needs and include your own branding. Your own tailor-made course, delivered ‘off-the-peg’ and saving you thousands of pounds in development time and man-hours. Just press print and the perfect learning experience is yours to deliver.

Course outline
Course outline

Introduction

Writing Reports and Proposals is a two-day workshop which is intended to help participants to effectively and successfully do the writing their job demands. This course has been designed for managers at any level in business, government, or industry, who must write reports and proposals. The Writing Reports and Proposals course teaches students that writing is about explanation, persuasion, and action. Instructors will be pleased to know that along with information about the content of reports and proposals, we have also included information about writing style. This course also shows students that they must practice to make their writing clear, concise, complete, and correct. This workshop helps participants to identify the reasons for this kind of writing, the forms it takes, and the persuasive techniques it requires.

Participants will learn to:

• Value written reports as a communication tool within their organization
• Develop paragraphs that introduce, connect, develop and conclude some part of an idea
• Recognize an appropriate and professional format
• Use headings and subheadings as signposts
• Prepare reports and proposals that inform, persuade, and provide information
• Proofread their work so they can feel confident it is clear, concise, complete and correct
• Apply these skills in real work applications

Course contents

• Introduction and Course Overview You will spend the first part of the day getting to know participants and discussing what will take place during the workshop. Students will also have an opportunity to identify their personal learning objectives.
• Becoming a Good Writer To begin, participants will learn ways to become a good writer. Participants will also learn the four C’s of good writing.
• The Rules of Writing Next, participants will learn the nine rules of report writing.
• The Readability Index This session will teach participants how to use the Gunning Fog Index.
• Paragraphs Next, participants will learn how to create topic sentences for paragraphs.
• Emphasis During this session, participants will explore ways to create emphasis.
• Unity and Coherence This session will teach participants how to create unity in their report.
• Active and Passive Voice Next, participants will look at the differences between the active and passive voice.
• The Stages of Report Writing The bulk of the second day will be spent exploring the four stages of report writing: investigation, planning, writing, and revising.
• Formal Reports During this session, participants will look at the additional components of a formal report.
• How to Use Headings This session will provide a brief introduction to laying out a report.
• Charts and Graphs Next, participants will learn the right way to add charts and graphs to their report.
• Writing Proposals During this session, participants will learn how writing a proposal is different from writing a report.
• The Finishing Touches This session will look at finishing touches for a report, including steps in the persuasion process, how to design your message, and how to deal with tough questions.
• Practical Application To wrap up the workshop, participants will peer edit each others’ work.
• Workshop Wrap-Up At the end of the workshop, students will have an opportunity to ask questions and fill out an action plan.

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