Introduction to Report Writing at FCA

Module Objectives

– Review FCA’s oversight responsibilities
– Understand the role of report writing within the examination process
– Explain the need for using deductive structure in FCA reports

All of the advice in this module and the following modules adheres to the Federal Plain Language Guidelines published in 2011. You can access those Guidelines on the Web here. The Guidelines are consistent with FCA’s longtime standards concerning report writing, including such precepts as identifying and writing for your audience, organizing to meet the reader’s needs, composing topic sentences, covering only one topic in a paragraph, avoiding hidden verbs and passive voice, avoiding jargon, and so on.

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