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Audience and Purpose: Who Reads Summaries?
As you learned
in the Audience and Purpose module, workplace readers are often in a hurry
and want "the bottom line" up front. As a result, whether it's
a sentence at the beginning of a progress report or a 1-page executive
summary at the beginning of a 30-page report, your summary must provide
the reader with the information they need most.
Workplace readers use summaries to help them make decisions, including:
Keep in mind, as well, that some readers (unlike your teacher) may review only the summary in a given document.
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