Report Writing: Learn To Write An Analytical Business Report

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Report writing course introduction and warm welcome

Lecture 1: Introduction, warm welcome, and how to approach this report writing course

Lecture 2: Introduction to writing our report

Lecture 3: Writing the executive summary of the report

Lecture 4: Introduction paragraph of the business report

Lecture 5: Formal vs. informal reports

Lecture 6: First vs. second vs. third person writing

Lecture 7: Active voice vs. passive voice in writing reports

Lecture 8: Writing the first paragraph of the report

Lecture 9: Second and third paragraph of the business report

Lecture 10: Finishing up the rest of the paragraphs in the report body

Lecture 11: How to create visual charts and graphs to add to your report

Lecture 12: Recommendation section of the report

Lecture 13: Conclusion section of the business report

Lecture 14: General report-writing tips and how to avoid procrastination

Lecture 15: Templates to save time

Lecture 16: Bibliography section of your report

Chapter 2: Using sharing and team collaboration features of Google Workspace (Docs)

Lecture 1: Introduction to Google Docs for report collaboration

Lecture 2: Creating an account in Google Workspace (formerly Google Docs)

Lecture 3: Sharing your document and editing it together

Lecture 4: Document history and managing revisions

Chapter 3: Cover letter writing and design for your report

Lecture 1: Business report cover letter and design

Lecture 2: Fonts to use in professional writing and report writing

Chapter 4: Other

Lecture 1: What are memos and when to use memos vs. email vs. reports

Chapter 5: Report-writing exercises

Lecture 1: Exercise for writing a business report

Lecture 2: Exercise for writing a business report – answer

Chapter 6: Conducting research for your reports

Lecture 1: Report research – section introduction

Lecture 2: Consumers and people behave differently than they say

Lecture 3: Starting to identify our target market and getting over initial assumptions

Chapter 7: Conduct research for your reports with feedback forms and surveys

Lecture 1: Survey section introduction

Lecture 2: Multi-page forms

Lecture 3: Finishing the course customer feedback form

Lecture 4: Script for the feedback collection email

Lecture 5: Customer feedback form results

Chapter 8: Conduct report research with focus groups

Lecture 1: Focus group costs – few thousand and different if you do it or a firm

Lecture 2: How to run a single focus group meeting

Chapter 9: Proofreading your reports

Lecture 1: Proofreading section introduction

Lecture 2: Proofreading your writing

Lecture 3: Checklist for proofreading

Lecture 4: Not re-reading what we expect and using different perspectives

Lecture 5: Use version revisions, suggestion feature, and other proofreaders

Lecture 6: Proofreading exercise

Lecture 7: Proofreading exercise answer

Chapter 10: Conclusion – thank you for being an amazing student

Lecture 1: Course certificate for this report writing course – how to get it

Lecture 2: Thank you for taking the course in this report writing course