1. REPORT WRITING
George N. Saxton
C.L.E.E.R
Cleer is misspelled.

2. REPORT WRITING
Collecting and documenting information and recording that information in a factual and objective mannor.
Mannor should be manner.

3. 3. REPORT WRITING Why do we fail? Lack of report righting training.
To many cases.
laziness or rusty writing skills.
Righting should be writing.
To should be too.

4. 4. REPORT WRITING Everyone needs a refresher coarse from time to time!
Report writing is an on-going process!
Coarse should be course.

5. 5. REPORT WRITING Objectivity is important! You must be professional
Must use good grammer
Must be objective
Grammer should be grammar.
Use NAAA story about evolution vs creationism and how it offended.
Talk about Loy’s terrible report that was read to the jury!

6. Report Writing 6. What skills do a good investigator need?
Human relations skills
Listening skills
Interviewing skills
Note taking skills
Factual report writing skills
Do should be does since it refers to investigator.
The format for ‘report writing’ changed from caps to small case.

7. 7. REPORT WRITING Needed Skills: Human relations skills
How are you perceived by the pubic.
Period at the end of public instead of a question mark.

8. 8. REPORT WRITING Needed Skills: Listening skills
Hearing is not the same as listening!
Nothing here.

9. 9. REPORT WRITING Needed Skills: Interveiwing skills
Get all of the facts!
Interviewing is spelled wrong

10. 10. REPORT WRITING Needed Skills: Note taking skills
When and how is it aproppriate?
Appropriate is spelled wrong

11. 11. REPORT WRITING Needed Skills: Factual report writing skills.
This is an art. Not everyone are a good artist!
Should be “is” a good artist.

12. 12. REPORT WRITING The Investigative Report Goals:
grammatically sound structure
factual and objective content
professional appearence
Appearance should be appearance

13. 13. REPORT WRITING Goals: Grammatically sound structure are a must!
Nothing here.

14. 14. REPORT WRITING Goals: Factual and objectibe content.
Objective is mispelled.

15. 15. REPORT WRITING Goals: Profesional appearance.
Professional is misspelled.

16. 16. REPORT WRITING The Investigative Report Report forms and formats:
methods of report writing
Forms
report formats
Forms is capitalized when the other bullet items are not. This is a format change.

17. 17. REPORT WRITING The Investigative Report
Objectivity in observation and report writing:
unintended personnel opinions
misleading statements
Personnel should be personal

18. REPORT WRITING
Unintended personal opinions can cause considerable problems!
Nothing here.

19. REPORT WRITING
Misleading statements can be disasterous for people like my lady boss!
This is a misleading statement and disastrous is misspelled.

20. 20. REPORT WRITING Characteristics of a factual/objective report:
accuracy
logic
clarity
conciseness
completness
Completeness should be completeness. Spell check would not allow me to misspell it here!

21. 21. REPORT WRITING Report Characteristics:
Accuracy - Nothing will cost you’re reputation more than to make inaccurate statements in your report!
You’re should be your.

22. 22. REPORT WRITING Report Characteristics:
Logic -Does your report come to a logical conclusion?
Nothing here.

23. 23. REPORT WRITING Report Characteristics:
Clarity - Would anyone be able to understand what you are saying. Even if they are not familiar with the subject mattor?
Mattor is misspelled.

24. 24. REPORT WRITING Report Characteristics:
Conciceness - Is your report to the point?
Conciceness is misspelled.

25. 25. REPORT WRITING Report Characteristics:
Completeness: Is everything covered in the report? Are there missing information
Should be ‘is’ there missing information.

26. 26. REPORT WRITING Note Taking: Purpose- permanent record
organization of material
memory aid’
interview/interrogation aid
Aid should not have ‘ at the end of it.

27. 27. Report writing Note taking:
Permanent record - Does your notes end up in the permanent file? Do not put anything in your notes you don’t want anyone to see later!
Should be ‘do’ your notes

28. 28. REPORT WRITING Note taking: Organization of material.
Using multiple bits of scrap paper is not a good idea for note taking!
Nothing here.

29. 29. REPORT WRITING Note taking: Memory aid
Is the many notes sufficient to assist you in preparing a report?
Should be ‘are’ the many notes.

30. 30. REPORT WRITING Note taking: Interview/interrogation aid.
The information you obtain will help you ask the propper questions in subsequent interviews.
Too many ‘p’s in proper.

31. 31. REPORT WRITING Note Taking: Legal rules regarding notes:
timeliness
usual course of investigation
personal observation/knowledg
original entries
Knowledg is spelled knowledge

32. 32. REPORT WRITING Timeliness:
We’re the notes taken during the investigation and not reconstructed afterwards?
We’re should be were.

33. 33. REPORT WRITING Usual course of investigation.
Is this the procedure you follow all the time?
Nothing here.

34. REPORT WRITING
Personal observations or knowledge.
Nothing here.

35. 35. REPORT WRITING Note taking: Original entries Nothing here.
Making notes in your report just before a hearing is usually not considered good form!
Nothing here.

36. 36. REPORT WRITING Grammer active versus passive voice
first person versus third person
specific versus general words
simple writing
word choice
sentence length
Grammer is mispelled

37. 37. REPORT WRITING Grammar (continued) spelling chrono1ogical sequence
paragraphs
organization
Do not believe anything is wrong with this slide.

38. REPORT WRITING
Questions?
Review