The Criminal Justice Report Writing Guide for Officers - Softcover

Reynolds Ph.D., Jean

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9780578082943: The Criminal Justice Report Writing Guide for Officers

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0578082942 ISBN 13: 9780578082943

Publisher: Maple Leaf Press, 2011

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The Criminal Justice Report Writing Guide for Officers offers both recruits and experienced officers a wealth of information about report writing. This comprehensive book includes a pre-test and post-test to help you assess your strengths and determine which skills need your attention. Chapter topics include organizing and writing professional reports, sentence skills, bullet style, avoiding usage errors, and the specialized vocabulary needed for report writing. Sample reports are included. Exercises are provided throughout the book, and an Answer Key allows you to check your progress at each step. Free supplements, including PowerPoints and practice quizzes, are available at www.YourPoliceWrite.com. Instructors can download a free instructors' manual by sending an email from an official account to jreynoldswrite@aol.com. Praise for THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE REPORT WRITING GUIDE FOR OFFICERS: I wish I’d had this in my hands prior to my first report....With your book I would have had a valuable resource. William Fienga, Correctional Probation Senior Officer, Florida Department of Corrections. I would have loved to have had a book like yours when I was active. Karl B. King, Lieutenant, Florida Highway Patrol, retired

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About the Author:

Dr. Jean Reynolds is Professor Emeritus at Polk State College in Winter Haven, Florida, where she taught English for over 30 years. She is the author of seven books, including two writing textbooks, and she is co-author (with the late Mary Mariani) of Police Talk (Pearson). She has taught basic education to inmates and served as a consultant on communications and problem-solving skills to staff in Florida's Department of Corrections. At Polk State College she has taught report writing classes for recruits and advanced report writing and FTO classes for police and correctional officers. Dr. Reynolds holds a doctorate in English from the University of South Florida and is an internationally recognized Shaw scholar. She is the author of Pygmalion’s Wordplay: The Postmodern Shaw, published by the University Press of Florida. She is an accomplished ballroom dancer. She and her husband, garden writer Charles J. Reynolds, live in Florida, where they enjoy reading and traveling.

Review:

From Joseph E. Badger for the California Association of Accident Reconstructionists Newsletter, December 2013:

"I've reviewed hundreds of accident report narratives and the detailed results of complete investigations.
Owing to copious misspellings, terrible grammar, and lousy sentence structure, I nearly wept and wondered why someone doesn't write a book specifically for criminal justice report writing....Guess what.
Someone did.
She is Jean Reynolds, Ph.D. Her 221-page book is titled Criminal Justice Report Writing. It will definitely help you with your writing skills."

Review by Mark Gallo for Reference Points: The Journal of the Michigan Association of Traffic Accident Investigators, December 2013:
"...a good text for use in the academy. It could also serve as a valuable reference for experienced investigators who want to improve their writing (a group which should include all of us)....I taught field note-taking and report writing for ten years, off and on, at the Oakland Police Academy. If this book had been available back then, I would have used it."

I have read the ebook version and found it quite an excellent text. In the program I teach, the range of interest is from Security Guard to Police or correctional officer and everything in between. The manner that you have presented the material lends itself to use at any level of knowledge and experience. You have zeroed in on specifics where needed with good illustrations of what success in report writing looks and feels like.I would recommend if to anyone from a beginner to a seasoned officer. Michael Kirk, Lead Instructor, Law Enforcement Foundations, Everest College, Canada.

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