Audience Considerations 
       Consulting Report Basics
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               • Gives expert advice on technical problems
                  Gives expert advice on technical problems
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               • Writes to an audience outside of your field
   Expertise      Writes to an audience outside of your field
   Expertise
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               • Covers findings based on data collection
                  Covers findings based on data collection
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               • Offers insights into findings
    Findings      Offers insights into findings
    Findings
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               • Provides recommendations in easily understood 
                  Provides recommendations in easily understood 
                  language
                  language
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 Recommendatio • Justifies recommendations with reasoning and 
 Recommendatio    Justifies recommendations with reasoning and 
      ns
      ns          analysis
                  analysis
  Key Concepts in Consulting 
  Reports
  Explanatio      Justificatio
     n    Analysis  n 
    Contents of a Consulting Report 
      Front      Conten       Back 
      Matter        t        Matter
        Front Matter Matters!
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                     Summar
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