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Reports... the thing that follows me around throughout my working life. Since becoming an office worker, it has always been with me, but if someone asked what a report is, I could only answer, 'A document for reporting?' I used to feel frustrated by the foggy uncertainty: I wrote them, but had no clear idea whether I was doing it properly. Then I read Make Your Reports Make Sense and thought, 'Now I get it! This is the first time I've thought about it this way!' Until now, I had written because
Job performance isn't determined only by how well you do the work; it also depends on how well you report it to others. That's why writing good reports is closely tied to overall work ability. Reports are one of the most basic means of communication at work, so the person assigning a report plays an important role alongside the person writing it. Make Your Reports Make Sense offers practical, real-world advice to people who aren't confident writing reports or have heard a supervisor say they
I've been through this myself, but when I look at reports written by employees in the organization I lead, I always point out one thing: 'The most basic thing is to think about persuading your audience.' Reports are hard. One of the hardest parts is figuring out how to develop them. Because reports are difficult, the ability to write a high-quality one can give the employee who wrote it wings: the sweet reward of promotion. Once I became a middle manager, I developed a different interest in
When we think of writing, we often imagine creating poems, novels, essays, or other works to show many people. But most office workers write, revise, and write again every day without any grand undertaking: they write reports. Reporting on work plans, progress, and results in words and images is also a form of writing, and it needs to be logical and make sense. This book covers the skills every office worker who writes or reviews reports should know for drafting and reviewing logical reports,
I still sometimes work late writing reports and plans, but they don't keep me so wound up that I lose sleep anymore. I've changed a lot since I was a new employee. Still, when I submit an internal report or plan with a bad expression, I feel embarrassed and think I should polish it more. A business email to a vendor, of course, needs to be completely different from an internal report. Documents often include pictures and charts as well as text. You need to check the numbers in the data, but
Writing documents is an essential part of working life. Reports, plans, and proposals are important tools for tracking work, solving problems, and sharing information with supervisors and colleagues. Yet this essential task is a source of worry and difficulty for many office workers, because learning information alone isn't enough; you need to write many different reports and gain experience. Make Your Reports Make Sense will be a useful guide for workers who struggle with report writing.
The cover is very nice. However, despite the title Make Your Reports Make Sense, it doesn't seem to help much with using Korean correctly. You might be better off reading the free resource 'How to Write Presidential Office Reports: Report Writing Manual (Office of the President).' It can be downloaded from the general resources section of the Korea Public Institution Research Institute website (maip.kr). It was published as a public resource in 2005 under the Roh Moo-hyun administration.
As communication through KakaoTalk, email, and video meetings has grown, people increasingly give brief written or verbal updates on just the key points, and formal reports have become less common. Even so, concise reporting is still based on the fundamentals of a report: giving the recipient only the important information they want to know. Writing many reports should help us use today's concise reporting methods more effectively. I've heard that reading many books can help you write reports
Reports are one of the basic duties of office workers. Much of the work at a company begins and ends with reporting. Yet many workers struggle to write reports properly, and I worry about it whenever I write one because I'm not sure whether I've met all my supervisor's requirements. After reading Make Your Reports Make Sense, many of those concerns seemed to be resolved. The author clearly explains why a supervisor may say they don't understand a report, that its logic doesn't hold together, or
I write reports almost every day, sometimes as many as three in one day, but each time I worry, 'Is it okay to write it this way?' and rack my brain. I was happy that a book I wanted was selected for a review, so I read it as soon as it arrived, first at home and then a little at a time at work. I kept marveling at how well it understood me. 'When you put the purpose under background, the task under strategy, and the results under performance, people don't know what you're talking about.' —from
Kim Cheol-su: Write the report in a way that makes sense.
Reports, plans, and proposals are like a multidisciplinary art form. They combine writing, numbers, data, charts, design, storytelling, logic, and other fields and tools into a unified whole. Many people take part, including writers, contributors, reviewers, and decision-makers, each offering opinions and feedback from their own perspective. One writer cannot complete the work alone; a strong report, plan, or proposal comes from everyone doing their part well. Many people still think report-writing training is only for new employees and that training is complete once they have received it. This book goes beyond how to write reports to cover terminology and formats, giving directions and feedback, drafting and reviewing, and revising and improving. Its 53 techniques for writing and reviewing logical reports, plans, and proposals can give everyone in an organization a chance to examine, improve, and innovate its reporting process.
Korean title: 보고서 말이 되게 써라
Korean author: 김철수
Korean publisher: 새로운제안
ISBN-13: 9788955336542
Reviews
Reports... the thing that follows me around throughout my working life. Since becoming an office worker, it has always been with me, but if someone asked what a report is, I could only answer, 'A document for reporting?' I used to feel frustrated by the foggy uncertainty: I wrote them, but had no clear idea whether I was doing it properly. Then I read Make Your Reports Make Sense and thought, 'Now I get it! This is the first time I've thought about it this way!' Until now, I had written because
Job performance isn't determined only by how well you do the work; it also depends on how well you report it to others. That's why writing good reports is closely tied to overall work ability. Reports are one of the most basic means of communication at work, so the person assigning a report plays an important role alongside the person writing it. Make Your Reports Make Sense offers practical, real-world advice to people who aren't confident writing reports or have heard a supervisor say they
I've been through this myself, but when I look at reports written by employees in the organization I lead, I always point out one thing: 'The most basic thing is to think about persuading your audience.' Reports are hard. One of the hardest parts is figuring out how to develop them. Because reports are difficult, the ability to write a high-quality one can give the employee who wrote it wings: the sweet reward of promotion. Once I became a middle manager, I developed a different interest in
When we think of writing, we often imagine creating poems, novels, essays, or other works to show many people. But most office workers write, revise, and write again every day without any grand undertaking: they write reports. Reporting on work plans, progress, and results in words and images is also a form of writing, and it needs to be logical and make sense. This book covers the skills every office worker who writes or reviews reports should know for drafting and reviewing logical reports,
I still sometimes work late writing reports and plans, but they don't keep me so wound up that I lose sleep anymore. I've changed a lot since I was a new employee. Still, when I submit an internal report or plan with a bad expression, I feel embarrassed and think I should polish it more. A business email to a vendor, of course, needs to be completely different from an internal report. Documents often include pictures and charts as well as text. You need to check the numbers in the data, but
Writing documents is an essential part of working life. Reports, plans, and proposals are important tools for tracking work, solving problems, and sharing information with supervisors and colleagues. Yet this essential task is a source of worry and difficulty for many office workers, because learning information alone isn't enough; you need to write many different reports and gain experience. Make Your Reports Make Sense will be a useful guide for workers who struggle with report writing.
The cover is very nice. However, despite the title Make Your Reports Make Sense, it doesn't seem to help much with using Korean correctly. You might be better off reading the free resource 'How to Write Presidential Office Reports: Report Writing Manual (Office of the President).' It can be downloaded from the general resources section of the Korea Public Institution Research Institute website (maip.kr). It was published as a public resource in 2005 under the Roh Moo-hyun administration.
As communication through KakaoTalk, email, and video meetings has grown, people increasingly give brief written or verbal updates on just the key points, and formal reports have become less common. Even so, concise reporting is still based on the fundamentals of a report: giving the recipient only the important information they want to know. Writing many reports should help us use today's concise reporting methods more effectively. I've heard that reading many books can help you write reports
Reports are one of the basic duties of office workers. Much of the work at a company begins and ends with reporting. Yet many workers struggle to write reports properly, and I worry about it whenever I write one because I'm not sure whether I've met all my supervisor's requirements. After reading Make Your Reports Make Sense, many of those concerns seemed to be resolved. The author clearly explains why a supervisor may say they don't understand a report, that its logic doesn't hold together, or
I write reports almost every day, sometimes as many as three in one day, but each time I worry, 'Is it okay to write it this way?' and rack my brain. I was happy that a book I wanted was selected for a review, so I read it as soon as it arrived, first at home and then a little at a time at work. I kept marveling at how well it understood me. 'When you put the purpose under background, the task under strategy, and the results under performance, people don't know what you're talking about.' —from
