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- Letters
- E-mails
- Memos
- Presentations
Informal reports can be made for purposes such as to inform, analyze, explain, recommend or even to persuade a party. A party or audience:
- Internally(coworker, supervisors. or executives)
- Externally(clients, customers, or outside agencies)
Regardless whether your report is formal or informal, a writer must always consider the needs and backgrounds of the audience. To get an idea of the needs and backgrounds of the audience, most people do some research, and though this may be time consuming, it is very important and must be done. Determining who the audience is correlated to the workplace situation. Different situations, different reports, different audience. The various types of informal reports are:
- Progress reports
- Lab reports
- Directives
- Incident reports
- Recommendation reports(offers options and best suggestion)
- Evaluation reports(an educated opinion on someone or something)
- Feasibility reports(determines whether a plan is possible and will solve the problem)
Another difference between formal and informal reports focus on the kind of problems that need to be solved and different audience expectations. Formal reports will typically usually solve bigger. more complex problems and therefore usually taking more time than informal reports. If you have more questions about about the difference between formal and informal writing, I would take a look at more videos from this youtube user(username): ExpertVillage
reference:
Dobrin, S.I., Keller C.J., & Weisser C.R. (2002).. Technical Communications in the Twenty First Century Upper Saddle River , NJ: Pearson Custom Publishing. pg. 621
Very clear, informative posting. You compare the informal report and formal report in a way that is easy to understand the differences and similarities. These are two important items that anyone in the workplace should be familiar with. Everything looks great, the only thing I saw was one or two grammatical errors. Keep up the good work.
ReplyDeleteThanks Alexis, I found out there is spell check and corrected a couple words! Thanks for the comment, it helped out!
ReplyDeleteAnother informative post. Good job Jason! I had a hard time understanding the major differences between formal and informal reports, and your blog did a good job of showing those differences in a way that was easy for me to understand! Looking forward to reading your next one about visuals!
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