Chapter -11
Writing Strategies for Reports and Proposals
This chapter teaches us how to write a report and proposals. There are different type of report and they are Informative (direct), Persuasive (indirect) and analytical(direct and indirect). Components of reports and design strategy are 1.Introduction i.e. direct strategy presents our context, basic topic, and suggested solutions or responses right away and indirect strategy presents our context and basic topic, but does not specifically indicate your suggestions or responses. You are not directing the reader toward your results because you want them to be considered a natural outgrowth of your argument.2. Background and it consists of a) Chronological approach which arranges the data according to the order in which they occurred. b) Situational approach discusses events or situations from the perspectives of certain departments or individual. C) Statistical approach provides a series of number facts, which may be appropriate if the data you are relating are informational or influence the ultimate goal of the document.
