D.Goldstein's Informal and formal reports

Informal reports are important in many workplace situations and can be used in the following ways:

• Introducing a proposal or plan to investors


• Describe a problem to a client


• Explain a new policy to an employee


• Announcing the status of a project to a manager

Informal reports can also be written for many different people and purposes and can be written for both internal and external audiences. Informal reports can be composed in different genre types such as:

• Memos


• letters


• Emails

The main types of informal reports that most of us have seen or been around are progress reports, lab reports and incident reports.

Formal reports on the other hand, solve problems that meet the audiences needs and expectations. Formal reports also tend to be much longer , more in depth and formatted in a different way than informal reports. The most important factor in writing formal reports is the research! Formal reports are also composed collaboratively.

The main type of formal reports are:

• Recommendation reports


• Feasibility reports


• Evaluation reports

Sources:

http://learn.seoeng.com/images/reports-available.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovN0qzF48vI