Bulletin Abstract Analysis

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The Activity

The following reports contain examples of executive summaries. Reading only the executive summaries, then answer the following questions:

• https://library.wmo.int/doc_num.php?explnum_id=10437 (Links to an external site.)
• https://www.sandag.org/uploads/publicationid/publicationid_1203_5355.pdf (Links to an external site.)

1. Can you identify the report’s purpose or goal?
2. Do you get a sense of audience? Who is this report for?
3. What report content/sections are included in the executive summary? Do you get the sense that this information is important?
4. What research is included in the report? Does the research included give you the sense that the report is well-researched, credible and/or thorough?
5. Does the executive summary convince you that reading the report would be worth your time? Why? Why not?

Finally, compare the two summaries you analyzed. What are the similarities and differences? What does each do well? What could be improved?