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Report Writing for Justice Professionals (Webinar)

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Online
Report writing can be tedious and time-consuming and often times reports are written and re-written.

This webinar offers best practices for planning and writing multisection reports that present complex information. Common report-writing challenges include: using overly technical language or legalese, not answering the reader's questions, applying a confusing organizational structure, not deleting unnecessary information, and using long dense paragraphs instead of lists and charts.

After attending this webinar, participants will be able to:

- Identify and clearly state the most important message in the report
- Apply strategies for understanding what information goes in which section
- Adopt a reader-friendly format including headings, lists, charts, and more
- Using clear and concise language
- Apply editing and proofreading techniques

Date Created: February 3, 2021