Background

Writing reports can be troublesome for some – where do you start? What information should you include? Writing of project monitoring of reports can be even more formidable for a technically competent personnel who is not used to writing reports in English or who has problems in expressing himself in a language different from his first language.


Proposal

This one day course will expose and assist technicians/engineers to specifically write more readable and coherent reports on the progress of on-going projects that have  a story line.


It will cover:

•  Layout – the different parts of “the story” the report should include
•  A smooth and logical  flow of events.
•  Purpose - so that everyone knows the objective of the report.
•  Readability – the reader can understand what the writer is trying to communicate with correct sentence construction and grammar.
•  Accuracy – using the right words for the meaning you want to convey.
•  Language Devices - for comparing and contrasting, substantiating and supporting, stating opinion.


Methodology

Participants will be led through the basics of report writing for  project monitoring via lectures and a workshop approach. It will be heavily learner - centred with the purpose of identifying essentials that should go into the paragraphs of the report and appropriate  grammar structures for content to be understandable and coherent. General weaknesses in writing would be targeted.


Size of Class

As this course will be conducted on a “hands-on” approach where individual attention is given, classes should not be more than 15. Participants should have at least an intermediate level of the English language.


Biodata of Speaker

Lena Khaw’s first language is English. Being educated in the late 1950s to the early 1970s, she is competent in nearly all the topics in the English language. Concerned about the growing difficulty of Malaysians in expressing themselves in good understandable English, she embarked on equipping herself with credentials to teach English as a 2nd language targetted at working adults.

Coupled with her vast experience in writing reports especially government technical reports for management, she now teaches not only English Proficiency courses but combines it with techniques for special writing skills like Technical, Business and Report Writing. With her not only will you learn the linguistic content of the English language, but also the context in which the content would be most applicable in the  targeted area which is technical report writing in this 1 day workshop.