Writing a Spanish Report with Findings and Recommendations
Writing a Spanish Report with Findings and Recommendations
In this lesson, you will write a structured report with a clear purpose, scope, information source, findings, interpretation, and recommendations. You will keep three layers separate: what the data show, what you infer from them, and what action you recommend.
Report scenario
A company surveyed employees about the use of meeting rooms.
Purpose
— Report objective: analyze the use of meeting rooms and propose measures to reduce waiting periods.
Scope
— The report covers the four offices in the main building during May.
This prevents the reader from assuming the results apply to all company locations or all months.
Source
— The results are based on booking records and a survey answered by 180 employees.
Finding 1
— 46% of daily bookings are concentrated between ten and twelve.
This is a finding from the booking data.
Finding 2
— 38% of respondents say they have at some point waited more than fifteen minutes to get a room.
This is self-reported survey information.
Interpretation
— These data suggest that pressure on meeting rooms is concentrated in a specific time period.
This is an interpretation based on the findings.
Do not turn interpretation into fact
Too strong:
— The only cause of waiting is that everyone books at the same time.
The data show concentration, but do not prove that it is the only cause.
Recommendation 1
— It is recommended to test 45-minute meetings instead of 60-minute meetings during the highest-demand period.
Link the recommendation to a reason
— The measure could increase availability between ten and twelve without adding new rooms.
The recommendation now has a stated rationale.
Recommendation 2
— It is also recommended to create a room category for short meetings of up to four people.
Supporting finding:
— 52% of bookings are for groups of four people or fewer.
State a limitation
— The survey does not allow us to know whether the employees who responded represent the entire workforce exactly.
Functional headings
- — Objective
- — Scope
- — Information sources
- — Main findings
- — Interpretation
- — Recommendations
- — Limitations
Model report
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A practical report-writing method
- State the purpose and scope.
- Identify the information sources.
- Present findings with clear numbers and units.
- Separate findings from interpretation.
- Connect every recommendation to a specific finding or reason.
- Use functional headings.
- State important limits of the data.
- Do not make the recommendations sound more certain than the evidence allows.
From Report Writing to Explaining Data Simply
You can now write a report that separates findings, interpretation, and recommendations. The next lesson teaches you to explain the main meaning of data to a general audience without losing numerical accuracy.