• Practice stating the purpose of correspondence as early and as clearly as possible for an intended audience
• Use a variety of techniques for getting started
• Develop paragraphs that are unified and coherent
• Use parallelism and other textual devices to create written messages that are reader-friendly
• Develop sentences that are free from error
• Write in a style that is clear and direct, whenever appropriate
• Write in a tone that is determined by the reader, the purpose and situation
• Revise with the intended reader and purpose in mind.

• Principles of Report Writing is highly recommended for those who write reports for the United Nations, particularly since the course content reflects the ongoing reform in the Organization.
• Participants begin to understand what is required to produce reports that are:  accurate, action-oriented, brief, clear, concise, simple and well-organized.  The course covers both pre-writing and writing processes, as well as style and tone, paragraph and sentence development and word choice.

• Determine reader and purpose
• Use one or more pre-writing techniques to get started
• Produce a flexible outline with the intended readers in mind
• Use appropriate formats
• State the purpose of a report in a brief summary or introduction
• Design a survey or questionnaire
• Recognize and use logical methods of reasoning and avoid logical fallacies
• Develop unified, coherent paragraphs
• Identify and correct sentence-level and word-level errors
• Proofread and revise their drafts.