Criminal justice
Subtitle: improving police report writing, instructor's manual
By: by C. Robinson Cox
Publisher: Interstate Printers & Publishers
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Danville, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 53
Subjects: Police reports; Report writing
Description: This manual contains specific help for instructors of on-the-job training or college courses in the many areas of law enforcement in which writing skill is essential. The student manual, 'criminal justice: improving police report writing,' provides police officers with a simplified workbook-style text in police report writing. Report writing problems are approached from the point of view of the police officer, incorporating firsthand experiences. The workbook stresses 1) format to save time and embarrassment in court, 2) simplified grammar to avoid errors, and 3) appendixes with model reports, departmental instructions, master spelling list, answers to tests, and an innovative self-scoring sheet to record improvement
Table of contents: value: Introduction; value: Preface; value: Chap. 1. Taking notes to simplify reports; value: Chap. 2. The face page; value: Chap. 3. The continuation page; value: Chap. 4. Format for speed writing; value: Chap. 5. Writing non-chronological material; value: Chap. 6. Reading others' reports; value: Chap. 7. Review of basic grammar; value: Chap. 8. Determining sentence structure; value: Chap. 9. Correcting spelling; value: Chap. 10. Making punctuation work; value: Chap. 11. Abbreviating and capitalizing; value: Chap. 12. Using or abusing words; value: Appendices; value: Chapter-in-book appraisal form