So now we move into the reporting skills aspect of this training. Let's look at the objectives for this module.

Now we've already covered the introduction to writing skills, and we've looked mainly at the purpose of professional writing. And we've looked at the Writing Process of thinking, planning, drafting and editing.

Now we're going to look at the first two steps of this process, the thinking and the planning. Thinking can also be described as the analysis stage of the process.

Let's talk about analysis for a moment. Here we're going to be looking at things such as setting our reporting objectives, selecting our data gathering methods and collecting information and analyzing that data. We're also going to look at planning - taking that analysis and turning it into a report structure, and drafting and editing based on that.

So our objectives for this part of the course are to:

• Learn how to set our reporting objectives
• Choose our methods for gathering data and collecting information

Later we will learn how to analyse that information and see how to plan and draft an effective report, bringing together everything we've learned in this course.