1. The Building Blocks of Writing to Achieve Results
  - discover the building blocks of writing to achieve results in audit reports
  - use the building blocks for evaluating all forms of writing in audit reports
  - fixing the Macro before addressing the micro
  - understand the importance of following  a writing process in audit report writing
 
2. Writing Basics: Determining Audience and Purpose
  - review the principles of good writing
  - identify your audience
  - be clear about your purpose
  - identify the essential information the audience needs given your purpose
  - determine how to communicate as clearly and concisely as possible
  - understand the importance of word choice
  - seek feedback before you send to the reader
  - writing from a viewing point vs. a point of view
 
3. Mindmapping: Organizing for Results
  - learn a method for thinking critically, organizing logically, and prioritizing strategically
  - establish a desired result
  - generating ideas and information related to audience and purpose
  - organizing, discussing, and prioritizing ideas and information
  - presenting a final mindmap and receiving feedback

4. Transparent Structure: Making Reading Easy
  - learn and practice using a wide range of graphic tools that help make organizational structure transparent to the reader
  - formatting documents to make reading and comprehension easier
  - creating visually appealing audit reports
 
5. Cutting the Clutter
  - demonstrate the importance of clarity and conciseness
  - enhance the readability of reports
  - learn how to become a better editor of your own writing
  - identify redundant words

6. Making Sentences Make Sense
  - emphasize the importance of making every thought in writing clear to the reader
  - communicating ideas clearly
  - identify run-on sentences and learn to edit from the viewpoint of the reader
 
7. Writing Findings and Recommendations
  - understand the Deming quality management concept as it applies to report writing
  - identify the five components of a well-written Finding and Recommendation
  - practice organizing your thoughts before your  write
  - write a Finding and Recommendation from the view point of the reader

8. Fixing the Micro
  - realize the importance of noun/pronoun agreement
  - realize the importance of subject/verb agreement
  - recognize the importance of parallel structure in sentence formation and bulleted items
  - become familiar with using a grammar reference manual (The Gregg Reference Manual)

9. Editing
  - review the six most common editing problems
  - review the six most useful editing techniques

10. Proofreading
  - review the seven most common proofreading problems
  - review the six most useful proofreading techniques
  - identify 25 common errors in an audit report