Organizing Data

After collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data to draw conclusions and make recommendations, you are ready to organize your report into a logical framework. Apply an appropriate organizational strategy to your data and provide cues to your readers to help them follow the logic of the report.

When you are writing an analytical report for a supportive and informed supervisor, you should use $$ organizational pattern. When should you organize your report by time?

an indirect

a direct

$$ When writing reports that need to show a series of events

When writing reports based on geographic locations

When writing reports that evaluate choices or plans

When should you organize your report by importance?

When writing reports that establish a chronology of events

When writing reports that begin with the most critical item and proceed to the least critical

$$ When writing reports that evaluate choices or plans

Consider the scenario, and then answer the question.

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Joseph is writing a report tracing the three$-$month development of a new office site.

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What type of organizational method should he use?