Business Writing – Reports & Proposals

This two-day intensive course is designed to equip corporate professionals with the skills needed to write effective reports and proposals, ensuring they can deliver clear, concise, and persuasive documents.

By the end of the workshop, participants would be able to:

• Appreciate the 3 components of writing to better identify personal writing challenges
• Sort through research to include only the relevant material
• Structure writing for clarity
• Understand what is required of the different components of a report
• Adapt your writing to suit the purposes and audience
• Differentiate between reports and proposals
• Present events and facts objectively and clearly
• Shape arguments with paragraphs and transition words
• Understand the language of reports
• Use the language of persuasion for proposals
• Employ visuals aids to enhance clarity
• Have proofreading and reviewing skills
  
  

Outline

• Understand the Writing Process
  – Invent
  – Compose
  – Revise
  
  
• Planning Your Content
  – The art of research
  – The importance of recording accurate information
  – Checking information
  – Pre-writing checklist
  – Organising your content
  
  
• Structuring Your Writing
  – 2 types of clarity
  – Headers & Lists for visual clarity
  – Key components in a report
  
  
• Types of Reports
  – Types of reports and their purposes & audience
  – Reports vs Proposals – What’s the Difference?
  
  
• Properties of a good sentence
  – Short
  – Simple
  – Concise
  – Precise
  – Plain
  – Write as You Talk
  – Cut Down on Jargon and Acronyms
  
  
• 7 strategies for writing good sentences
  – Cut out information
  – Cut up information
  – Cut out the Deadwood
  – Drop Redundancies
  – Order your Sentence
  – Use First Person
  – Choice of Voice
  
  
• The Language of Reports
  – Presenting technical terms for the layman
  – Presenting numbers and statistics that can be easily understood
  
  
• The Language of Persuasion for Proposals
  
  
• Grammar & Vocabulary
  – Grammar pitfalls – tenses and subject-verb agreement
  – Prepositions
  – Dos and don’ts of choosing words
  – The power of paragraphs
  – Linking words
  
  
• Using Visual Aids
  – Types of visuals aids
  – When and how to use them
  
  
• Proofreading & Review Techniques
  – Proofreading techniques
  – Reviewing techniques
  – Checklist for reviewing

Type	Early bird	Normal	Members (Join/renew here)
Fee (S$) excl. of GST	680.00	710.00	650.00
Fee (S$)*	741.20	773.90	708.50
50% UTAP disbursement amount (if eligible)
For ≤ 39 years old	Total Nett Fee Paid x 50% (capped at $250)**
For ≥ 40 years old	Total Nett Fee Paid x 50% (capped at $500)**
*9% GST is based on full course fee
**NTUC Starter Members capped at $200

Grants (if applicable)

• Union Training Assistance Programme (UTAP):

  NTUC members enjoy 50% unfunded* course fee support for up to $250 per year when you sign up for courses supported under UTAP. NTUC Members aged 40 and above can enjoy higher funding support at up to $500 per year for courses attended between 1 July 2020 to 31 December 2025. NTUC Starter members can enjoy funding support at up to $200 per year. For more information on how to submit UTAP claims, click here.

  *Unfunded course fee refers to the balance course fee payable after applicable government subsidies. This excludes material fees, registration fees, misc. fees etc.