What action do you want your colleagues to take after they read your report?

• Considerations when writing your report include:
  • Who is you audience?
    • The assignment states: Your target audiences are colleagues in the engineering and management community. So who will be your colleagues when you are in a work environment?
    • What do you colleagues know about your subject?
    • Why would your colleagues be interested in your topic?
    • What do they have to gain from the information you present?
    • How does what your colleagues have to gain from your subject relate to what they need to work productively?
  • What action do you want your colleagues to take after they read your report?
  • What does you audience need to know before they will want to take that action?

Now you need to use this information to guide your writing process. As you develop you ideas, you will need to keep coming back to these questions in order to develop a well-prepared and