1. Short Reports: Progress Feasibility Causal Analysis
Assessment (a.k.a. as evaluation or investigation)
Recommendation
Proposal

2. Short Reports: The most frequent type of writing done by:
Technologists
Engineers
Technicians
Business writers
Research scientists
Purpose: to provide information and analysis so that readers can be informed and make good decisions
Report Formats:
Correspondence (letter, , or memo of 1 – 3 pages)
Semi-formal (of 4 – 10 pages)

3. Progress Report (Lannon and Klepp, pp. 433-444)
Kinds of Reports:
Progress Report (Lannon and Klepp, pp )
Shows the status of a project.
Is it in schedule?
Does it need corrections?
What work is next?
Purpose may be to:
Give a summary of work completed
Describe work in progress
Forecast when work will be completed

4. Feasibility Report (Lannon and Klepp, pp. 455-456)
Kinds of Reports:
Feasibility Report (Lannon and Klepp, pp )
Conducted to examine whether a project or some equipment is feasible (suitable, or capable of being done)
Purpose may be to:
Compare solutions or proposals ( not yet started)
Examine practicality of a possible action

5. Causal Analysis Report (Lannon and Klepp, pp. 455-456)
Kinds of Reports:
Causal Analysis Report (Lannon and Klepp, pp )
Examines what caused a problem, a failure, or an incident
Purpose may be to:
Identify and eliminate possible causes
Find the mostly likely cause and prove it

6. Assessment Report (Lannon and Klepp, pp. 460-461)
Kinds of Reports:
Assessment Report (Lannon and Klepp, pp )
Conducted after a project has been completed, or after changes have been made
A.k.a. evaluation or investigation report
Purpose may be to:
Evaluate effectiveness of changes that were made
Compare solutions or proposals (already done)

7. Recommendation Report (Lannon and Klepp, pp. 460-461)
Kinds of Reports:
Recommendation Report (Lannon and Klepp, pp )
Offers a potential solution to a problem
May be either:
Solicited (Someone asked the writer for it) or
Unsolicited (The writer decided to do it)
Purpose may be to:
Sell a solution to a problem, using facts to help the reader decide what to do

8. Proposal Report (Lannon and Klepp, pp. 338-368)
Kinds of Reports:
Proposal Report (Lannon and Klepp, pp )
A proposal offers to do something, or recommends that something should be done.
Purpose may be to:
Improve conditions
Authorize work on a project
Present a product or a service (sales)
Support a plan for doing a job

9. What kind of report would you like to write?