Professional Practice, Client Management & Report Writing

Writing Market Commentary

Structure and write reports clients trust and act on.

Intermediate
4 modules 12 lessons 2 exercises 2 case studies
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The promise

Turn analysis into writing and slides a client reads, trusts, and acts on.

By the end you can

  • Structure a report around an argument
  • Write action titles and evidence-led commentary
  • Avoid the credibility-killers reviewers catch
  • Build a clean market study deck

Where this course takes you

This course is part of 2 role tracks. Each ends in a professional deliverable and stacks toward a named certificate.

Curriculum

01

Structuring a Report

Answer-first structure and the report spine that carries a reader from recommendation to evidence and back. You learn to build the skeleton every market report shares before you write a word of prose.

Answer-First StructureReading
The Report SpineReading
Tailoring to the ReaderExercise
02

Evidence and Assumptions

Building the evidentiary base of a report: assumptions tables with sources and ranges, triangulation in writing, distinguishing asking from transacted prices, and honest treatment of uncertainty.

Assumptions TablesReading
Triangulation in WritingCase study
Asking vs TransactedReading
Evidence and Assumptions CheckQuiz · pass 0.67%
03

Writing with Clarity

Turning evidence into prose a decision-maker can trust: evidence over adjectives, ruthless concision, using charts and data cards well, and recognising the common failure modes of weak commentary.

Evidence Over AdjectivesReading
ConcisionExercise
Charts, Maps, and Data CardsCase study
04

Executive Summaries & Recommendations

The final mile: writing the one-page summary, framing specific and caveated recommendations, handling proposal pricing and scope, and delivering work clients actually act on.

The One-Page SummaryReading
Specific, Caveated RecommendationsReading
Proposal Pricing and ScopeReading
Summaries and Recommendations CheckQuiz · pass 0.67%

Course assessment

Evidence and Assumptions CheckPass 0.67%
Summaries and Recommendations CheckPass 0.67%

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