Report Writing at University and in the Workplace (FutureLearn)

You’ll have the chance to reflect on your previous experience of writing reports and compare those with other common assignment types, such as essays.

Along the way, you’ll be introduced to effective examples of workplace and academic reporting.

You’ll consider the organisation, style, and audience of these business and academic reports and assess their structure and purpose.

What topics will you cover?

- The structure and format of workplace and academic business reports

- Developing an appropriate style of writing

- Diagnostic/formative writing task

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

- Identify the typical expectations of writing for business courses

- Describe the structure of a typical business report

- Explain yourself in an appropriate academic/professional style of writing