Analytic Writing, Reporting and Dissemination Training Course Online
Analytic Writing, Reporting, Briefs, and Dissemination Online Training
The Treadstone 71 Analytic Writing, Reporting, and Dissemination course covers 2 days of intensive writing training, exercises, peer reviews, briefings and reviews, report types and dissemination techniques. We follow the intelligence community and proven academic methods validated and verified through years of execution.
Analytic Writing, Reports, and Briefs
| Introduction | Common Grammar Offenses |
| Heuristics and the Incredible Chunk | The W Questions |
| Speaking and Writing, News and Knowledge | Do not! |
| Writing Schemes and Cognitive Overload | Losing your Reader |
| Creativity and the Conceptual Front End | Clear Linkages |
| Analytic Writing | Analytic Coherence |
| Reference Materials | Citations and Bibliography |
| Principles of Analytic Writing | Setting up Microsoft Word |
| Writing Basics | Reporting |
| Conciseness | Categories of Finished Intelligence |
| Credibility | Detailed Reports |
| Messaging | Advisory Reports |
| Active Voice | Situation Reports |
| Words and Wording | Sensitive Information Reports |
| Sentences | Estimative Reports |
| Paragraph Review | Forecasting |
| Confidence Wording | STEMPLES Plus |
| Probability wording | |
| Standard Formatting | Follow-ups |
| BLUF and AIMS | FLASH Precedence |
| Addressing Focal Questions | Editing Process |
| Knowing your Stakeholder | Drafts |
| Stakeholder Checklist | Review process |
| Relevance and Alignment to the Intelligence Requirements | Review cycles |
| Key Questions to Organize your Product | Peer Review Rubric |
| Getting Started Checklist | Quality of Information |
| The Analytic Line of March | Sources |
| Preparing your writing | Evidence and Examples |
| Rules for Effective Writing | Sequencing |
| Implications | Voice |
| A Writing Template | Analysis |
| Concept Outline | Briefs |
| Analytic Writing Process | Introduction |
| Flow and Content | Body of the Brief |
| Analytic Inconsistencies | Conclusion |
| Ambiguous Terms | Adversary Brief |
| Comparisons | Current Intelligence Brief |
| Graphics | Operational Intelligence Brief |
| Sequence of Events | Event Brief |
| Bullets | Intelligence Estimate |
| Strength of Supporting Information | Executive Brief |
| Your Objective | Stakeholder Brief |
| Small to Large | Briefings |
| Doctrine | Presentational Methods |
| Feedback Loop |
Students receive focused training with hands-on practice using templates and exercises that leave the student ready to write for intelligence analysis. There is a rhythm and flow to analytic writing. We help you establish the flow during the class giving you the confidence needed to author analytic products while delivering clear, concise, and effective briefings.
The course runs over 2 days and includes 16 CPEs.
Lecture, Hands-on, Apprenticeship, in class exercises, student presentations, analytic products, templates, course material—24 CPEs. This course follows the International Association for Intelligence Education Standards for Intelligence Analyst Initial Training while adding academic instruction combined with practical and pragmatic lessons and hands-on work developing the methods and knowledge necessary to write in IC analytic fashion.