The course content addresses the following topics:
- Overview of executive reports used in business
- Definition, structure, and sequence of an executive report
- Audience, context, and purpose
- Crafting aim/s and purpose for the Terms of Reference
- Writing the Executive Summary
- Creating a Table of Contents: formatting numbering and font, and creating a report style
- Writing the Introduction, Findings, Conclusions, Recommendations, References, Glossary
- Describing visual information
- Collating and attaching appendices
- Transition signals: sequencing, cause, effect, result, comparison, contrast, argumentation, supporting details
- Hedging/mitigating language and language for certainty
- Representing numbers
- Editing and proofreading
- Formatting a report: font, headings and subheadings, bullet points, style