A Street Officer's Guide to Report Writing
ISBN: 9781111542504 | 1111542503
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 1/1/2012
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A STREET OFFICER'S GUIDE TO REPORT WRITING is your ticket to effective writing skills and greater success in the criminal justice field! Illustrating each of the 'Four Pillars' of a well-written report--Clear, Concise, Complete, and Accurate--the book is packed with examples as well as stories from the authors' own experience, and exercises to improve report writing skills. Additional topics covered includethe Five W's and One H of Journalism, email correspondence, letter writing, performance reviews, proofreading, and much more. Written by exp... MORE
| An Introduction | |
| Foreword | |
| Preface: A Greeting | |
| What are you Getting Yourself Into? | |
| Who's Who in This Zoo? | |
| A Pecking Order | |
| And Away We Go | |
| What is a Police Report? It is what it is | |
| "Report Writing is boring." Who Reads his Stuff? Case in point | |
| A Trip to the Fair | |
| A Quality Report... MORE | |
| Four Pillars | |
| Clear | |
| The First Pillar | |
| You Can't Read What You Can't See | |
| In Order To Write, Write in Order | |
| That's What They Say | |
| "De Plane" Language | |
| Oops! Spell It, Spell It, Spell It Out Loudą Grammar Sucks | |
| Case in point | |
| Did I Mention that Grammar Sucks? Man, Am I Ever Tense | |
| Active versus Passive Voice | |
| Change it Up | |
| The End is Just the Beginning | |
| Exercises | |
| Concise | |
| Steve Is Cool (Part I) | |
| It All Ties Together...and a River Runs Through It | |
| Steve Is Cool (Part II) | |
| The How of it | |
| Charlotte was Concise | |
| Never the Twain Shall Meet | |
| More How | |
| A Trip to the Hospital | |
| Exercises | |
| Complete | |
| The Ballad of Woody | |
| You Complete Me | |
| The Reason for the Box | |
| Whaddaya See, Whaddaya Hear? You Do, Bad Guy Do | |
| Think Journalism | |
| Another Trip to the Hospital | |
| The Weight | |
| Exercises | |
| Accurate | |
| How important is it to be accurate? Yin of Accuracy | |
| The Yang of Accuracy | |
| The One-Eyed Man is King Today's is Yesterday's Tomorrow | |
| How About Them Boxes? Roles People Play | |
| How Much for That DVD Player in My Living Room? That's What Pete Said | |
| Opinions | |
| Tee it High and Let it Fly | |
| Time to Summarize (not Winter-ize) Proof of the Crime | |
| How do you proofread? Final Accuracy | |
| Exercises | |
| Conclusion | |
| Bonus Features | |
| What Am I Looking For? | |
| Looking ahead | |
| Keep on Writin' in the Free World | |
| Professional Letters | |
| Memorandum and Proposals | |
| Commendations | |
| Performance Reviews | |
| Formal Reviews | |
| White Papers | |
| Et cetera | |
| Final Thoughts | |
| A Final Review | |
| Final Review Key | |
| A (good) Example Burglary Report | |
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