This week you will submit a rough draft of your formal report or proposal. If you are writing a formal report, your rough draft will include the following elements.

Title Page
Table of Contents
Executive Summary
Introduction

Your primary goal as you draft business reports is to improve decision making. More so than routine business correspondence, reports should be built on thorough, precise, and reliable information and analysis and should offer advice to help decision makerstypically middle-level and upper-level managersmake informed choices. As a report writer, your personal credibility is tied to how well you provide facts, conclusions, and positions that help decision making (competence), involve decision makers and address their needs (caring), and report information honestly and transparently (character).