Technical Report Writing in The Maritime & Offshore Industry
Technical Report Writing in The Maritime & Offshore Industry
Technical Report Writing in The Maritime & Offshore Industry
ISO 29990
13-MAR-18
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Technical Report Writing
in the Maritime & Offshore Industry
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PROGRAMME OUTLINE
DAY 01 DAY 03
THE BASICS OF TECHNICAL REPORT ELEMENTS OF STYLE
WRITING
• Word choice, Accuracy and Courtesy
• The need for and the purpose of effective report writing • Sentence structure
• Understanding jargon
• Types of writing
• Be Clear. Be Concise. Be correct
• What is expected of you?
• How to engage the reader
• Edit then Edit again
• Revision
• Common elements – content, clarity, style and language
• Parallel Rules
• The offshore Oil/Gas and Maritime Industry – its special
• ‘Wordines’
needs • Consistency
• Preparation, audience general format • Copy + Paste = PLAGIARISM
• Aims, objectives, style • ‘TURNITIN’ Detection
• Information handling techniques – storage and • References, Journals and Papers
reproduction • Key Features of a Good Technical Report and how to write
• Appearance it
• Purpose and objective • Quick and easy form of communication
• Contracts • Design for selective reading
• Format • Use figures and diagrams to convey data
• Drafting and Planning • Exercise – Full Review and Case Studies of Technical
• Purpose of research and accuracy Reports from Harvard (U.K) and M.I.T Universities (U.S.A)
• The human elements
• First, second and third person DAY 04
• What is passive voice?
• Organizing information REPORT WRITING
• Time management
• Incident reports
DAY 02 •
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Survey and Technical papers
Engineering Reports
• Investigation reports
STRUCTURE AND STYLE • Expert Reports
• Site Visit Report
• Contents, introduction, executive summary, background, • Updates
procedures, findings, sub headings conclusion, • Laboratory Report
recommendations, reference, bibliography, appendixes • Discussion Reports
• Layout and logic • Results Report
• Font • Observation Reports
• Type • Conference Reports
• Line spacing • Power Points
• Abstracts • Experimental Reports
• Narrative • Assessment and condition reports
• Margins
• Numbers DAY 05
• Tables and figures
• Acknowledgments IT AND DECIDING TO INVEST IN IT
• Abbreviations EQUIPMENT
• Keep the word count down
• Formal language • Computer hardware and software
• Document security
• Overworked words
• Fax and emails
• ‘Wooley’ qualifiers
• The World Wide Web
• Emotional and ‘leading’ words
• Glossary of IT terms
• Tenses
• Punctuation and common mistakes
Expert Witness Testimony and Reports
• Numbering and Headings
• Illustrations and diagrams • Disclosure of reports and communications
• Critical thinking • Civil and criminal procedures for report writers
• Exercise – Submission of a full Technical Report from
Delegates and Assessment of Technical Reports
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