Identify Effective and Ineffective Writing

Now let's analyze effective writing by looking at some samples from the World Bank. You will find that the quality of a document is usually determined by more than one factor.
There are two steps to this activity. First you will skim two documents, and then you will analyze one in more depth.

Step 1: Skim each of the two sample documents and decide whether it represents effective or ineffective writing. As you read through each document, write down your impressions (jot them down on paper or create a new Word document). You may refer to them for the activity on the next screen.

Sample 1 ESAF/SAF E-mail

Sample 2 VP's Visit E-mail

Please note that these two samples are e-mails, not reports, but they illustrate principles that apply to longer documents.