This low-cost, practical book covers everything you need to know about writing effective police reports. Exercises, practice tests, and an answer key are included.

1. Criminal Justice Report Writing
by Jean Reynolds,
Ph.D.

2. Criminal Justice Report Writing
by Jean Reynolds,
Ph.D.

3. You’re a doer, not a writer.

4. You know all
about policing,
and you’re
good at it.

5. But conjunctive adverbs,
reflexive pronouns, and past-
perfect verbs?

6. You haven’t
thought about
that stuff since
high school.

7. Report writing.
Not fun. Not
exciting. Not easy.
But definitely a
vital part of your
job.

8. Good reports
help solve
crimes and
convict
lawbreakers.

9. Your supervisor
reads your
reports.
So do attorneys,
prosecutors, and
news reporters.

10. You’d like to write better
reports.

11. You want to update your skills.

12. You want to
be more
efficient.

13. Here’s
how…

14. “Everything I need
to know to write
better reports.”
“Explanations are
easy to
understand.”

15. “Lots of exercises,
and the answers
are at the back of
the book.”
“Low cost,
practical, simple
to use.”

16. “I’m finally feeling confident about
commas and apostrophes.”

17. “I learned there are only four basic
types of reports, and from there it
was easy.”

18. “I solved all those
sentence
problems I used
to have.”
“Now that I know
how to organize
my reports, I’m
saving a lot of
time.”

19. “The practice
tests and answer
keys helped me
get through the
academy.”

20. Content includes…
•planning, organizing, and writing reports
•law enforcement and corrections examples
•criminal justice terminology
•notetaking and interviewing
•clarity, brevity, and objectivity
•a complete English usage review

21. Available from www.Amazon.com for
$17.95.
View a free sample online.

22. A free Instructor’s
Manual is available on
request: Send an e-
mail from your official
account to
jreynoldswrite @
aol.com.

23. Download as an
e-book for Kindle,
Nook, SONY, and other
e-readers at
www.Smashwords.com
for only $9.99.

24. And check out the free resources at
www.YourPoliceWrite.com.