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

  1. State the purpose and scope.
  2. Identify the information sources.
  3. Present findings with clear numbers and units.
  4. Separate findings from interpretation.
  5. Connect every recommendation to a specific finding or reason.
  6. Use functional headings.
  7. State important limits of the data.
  8. 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.

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