(DRW) Documentation and Report Writing Module Overview

Documentation and Report Writing Module Overview

Report Writing ImageOne of the most important skills for all careers in LPSCS is report writing. The ability to interview people and investigate incidents followed by properly documenting what you have discovered is core to all LPSCS professions.   This module will give you an elementary introduction to these skill sets. Later courses in the LPSCS Pathway will further your skills in professional documentation.  

 

Essential Questions

  • How do you collect information from people?
  • How do you document incidents?
  • How do you write a basic narrative?
  • What types of reports do LPSCS professionals use?

 

Key Words

  1. Incident Report - a police agency's compiling of basic public information related to arrests, accidents or investigations made by law enforcement. It includes who was involved, what happened, and when and where the incident took place
  2. Active Listening - a communication technique used in counseling, training and conflict resolution, which requires the listener to feed back what they hear to the speaker, by way of re-stating or paraphrasing what they have heard in their own words, to confirm what they have heard and moreover, to confirm the understanding of both parties
  3. Non-Verbal Communication - those aspects of communication, such as gestures and facial expressions, that do not involve verbal communication but which may include nonverbal aspects of speech itself (accent, tone of voice, speed of speaking, etc)
  4. Concise - expressing or covering much in few words
  5. Narrative Reports - a type of report through which an experience is described and told from the writer's point of view
  6. Field Interview - informal questioning of a suspect performed on the spot of contact that aren't as structured as formal interrogations
  7. Rapport - relationship, especially one of mutual trust
  8. Spatial - of, relating to, involving, or having the nature of space
  9. Ambiguous - not clear, open to more than one interpretation
  10. Supplement - a section added to a book or document to give further information

 

Key Words Review

After reviewing your key words for this module, complete the review activity below:

 

 

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