Report Writing: Learn To Write An Analytical Business Report

Name: Report Writing: Learn To Write An Analytical Business Report
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Report writing: learn to write analytical business reports and informational business reports that sparkle and impress

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Created byAlex Genadinik

Last updated 1/2025

English

What you'll learn

Write impressive and effective reports
Different types of business reports
Make reports visually appealing
Learn to logically structure your reports
Impress with your business reports, and grow your career
WORLD-CLASS student support: I answer 99% of student questions within 24 hours

Course content

10 sections • 44 lectures • 2h 48m total length

Introduction, warm welcome, and how to approach this report writing course1:49
Introduction to writing your report4:28
Define an analytical report as a data-driven document that combines qualitative insights with quantitative data to analyze business strategy, provide recommendations, and outline key sections.
Writing the executive summary of the report5:53
Summarize the report's full scope with the executive summary, highlighting findings and recommendations to prioritize opportunities such as online course selling and course licensing while pausing or abandoning underperforming projects.
Introduction paragraph of the business report1:58
Formal vs. informal reports3:23
Distinguish between informal and formal reports for business writing. Learn when to use quick internal memos and project updates versus longer, research-based documents with a formal structure.
First vs. second vs. third person writing4:40
Active voice vs. passive voice in writing reports5:26
Writing the first paragraph of the report3:45
Second and third paragraph of the business report5:39
Finishing up the rest of the paragraphs in the report body3:10
How to create visual charts and graphs to add to your report2:17
Learn to create and customize charts in Excel from your data, choose formats like column or pie charts, and paste visuals into PowerPoint to communicate insights clearly.
Recommendation section of the report2:13
Conclusion section of the business report4:08
General report-writing tips and how to avoid procrastination5:23
Templates to save time2:02
Use Canva templates to turn plain reports into professional, readable documents with well-spaced layouts and graphics. Customize pages for different topics, then download a polished pdf to share.
Bibliography section of your report2:28

Exercise for writing a business report1:34
Practice writing an executive summary for a formal analytical business report on startup statistics, including failure and success rates and links to founder income and work enjoyment.
Exercise for writing a business report - answer2:03
Examine data on United States small businesses, define start, success, and failure, and outline executive summary components—74% fail within three years, while successful start-ups yield incomes after five years.
Business report quiz

Survey section introduction2:43
Conduct consumer surveys to gather feedback for improving courses and designing new ones, using free tools like Google Forms, and invite participants while evaluating incentives.
Multi-page forms4:35
Create a multi-page feedback form in Google Drive by selecting a template, adding sections and questions across pages, and configuring optional and required fields.
Finishing the course customer feedback form3:19
Script for the feedback collection email2:24
Customer feedback form results7:45

Proofreading section introduction1:14
Practice rigorous proofreading by applying a specific strategy to spot common errors, prevent an unprofessional look, and dramatically reduce draft mistakes in your analytical business reports.
Proofreading your writing8:26
Checklist for proofreading1:32
Apply a practical proofreading checklist to catch grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors, ensure sentences are logically sound, and check their flow from start to finish to improve your writing.
Not re-reading what we expect and using different perspectives5:20
Use version revisions, suggestion feature, and other proofreaders4:41
Proofreading exercise0:30
Proofreading exercise answer3:12
Walk through drafting and proofreading an analytical business report, from draft zero to readability, grammar, and punctuation, using feedback to craft an interesting, compelling document that stands out in resumes.
Proofreading quiz

Requirements

No requirements

Description

At work, you may be tasked with writing either an informational or an analytical report. This is a lengthy document which requires some professionalism in how it's written, the content in it, its formatting, and the ultimate usefulness of the information it contains.

It's difficult to get all these elements right at the same time, but now with this course, you will be able to write and accurate and well-researched report in relatively little time, and without worrying whether you are on the right track.

Imagine your boss at work tells you to write an analytical report about some topic. The first reaction may be pure panic. How do you write one? What does the boss want in the report? How long should it be? Does it need graphs and charts? These are just a few of the questions that might run through your mind in the first few seconds.

This course will walk you through how to answer each of these questions for your unique situation. It will immediately decrease your panic and stress levels, and you will be able to write a professional report section by section as you are following each video in this course.

ANALYTICAL REPORT AND INFORMATIONAL REPORT

This course will show you how to write an analytical report. It's very similar to writing an informational report with just a few extra sections. So even though the example in the course will be an analytical report, you would also be able to write an informational report with the guidance of this course.

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Who this course is for:

Business professionals

Report Writing: Learn To Write An Analytical Business Report

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Course content

Report writing course introduction and warm welcome16 lectures • 59min

Using sharing and team collaboration features of Google Workspace (Docs)4 lectures • 9min

Cover letter writing and design for your report2 lectures • 10min

Other1 lecture • 5min

Report-writing exercises2 lectures • 4min

Conducting research for your reports3 lectures • 16min

Conduct research for your reports with feedback forms and surveys5 lectures • 21min

Conduct report research with focus groups2 lectures • 12min

Proofreading your reports7 lectures • 25min

Conclusion - thank you for being an amazing student2 lectures • 9min

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