http://blog.joeysmith.com/ Drowning In Stupid en Serendipity 1.4.1 - http://www.s9y.org/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:21:39 GMT http://blog.joeysmith.com/templates/default/img/s9y_banner_small.png http://blog.joeysmith.com/ 100 21 http://blog.joeysmith.com/23.html Business Writing http://blog.joeysmith.com/23.html#comments http://blog.joeysmith.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=23 0 http://blog.joeysmith.com/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=23 nospam@example.com (TML) <p>Looking online for articles on how to write Executive Summaries (for the content of the previous post), I came across a lot of references regarding the &#8220;Executive Summary&#8221; section of Business Plans. I&#8217;ve included some of them below for future reference:</p> <p>captureplanning.com had a couple of articles that seemed useful:<br /> <a onclick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/extlink/www.captureplanning.com/!hc_executive_summary.cfm');" href="http://www.captureplanning.com/!hc_executive_summary.cfm">&#8216;Executive Summary&#8217; Category at captureplanning.com</a><br /> <a onclick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/extlink/www.captureplanning.com/articles/13572.cfm');" href="http://www.captureplanning.com/articles/13572.cfm">The Three Uses of Executive Summaries</a><br /> <a onclick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/extlink/www.captureplanning.com/articles/13573.cfm');" href="http://www.captureplanning.com/articles/13573.cfm">Questions to Answer</a></p> <p><a onclick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/extlink/www.csun.edu/~vcecn006/summary.html');" href="http://www.csun.edu/~vcecn006/summary.html" title="@ csun.edu">Executive Summaries in a Nutshell</a></p> <p>The one that I finally ended up using to frame my own summary:<br /> <a onclick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/extlink/www.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/essays/abstract.html');" href="http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/essays/abstract.html" title="@ CMU">How to Write an Abstract</a></p> <p>Perhaps the most amusing part about the whole thing is that, upon delivering the 8 page article and the summary I had just sweated over, one member of the audience glanced at it and then said &#8220;give me the highlights&#8221; &#8211; at which point I condensed it even further to the point of a single, spoken paragraph. On the one hand, it made me feel as if I may have wasted some time writing the summary &#8211; on the other, if I hadn&#8217;t just spent that time putting the summary together, maybe I wouldn&#8217;t have been able to summarize the article on-the-spot as well as I did.</p> Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:07:12 -0600 http://blog.joeysmith.com/23.html