{"id":1115,"date":"2015-03-05T22:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T22:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/technicalwriting1xmaster\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=1115"},"modified":"2023-03-28T17:05:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T17:05:36","slug":"message-from-the-instructor-28","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-technicalwriting\/chapter\/message-from-the-instructor-28\/","title":{"raw":"Reports Overview","rendered":"Reports Overview"},"content":{"raw":"In this learning unit, students will learn about writing 4 major kinds of reports:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Instructional Descriptive Reports<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Instructional Prescriptive Reports<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Classification Reports<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Partition Reports<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nThe <strong>Instructional Descriptive Report<\/strong> is a\u00a02nd Person Instructional Report, meaning that it is written using the 2nd person voice (the understood \"you\") 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