TY - BOOK AU - Guffey,James E. TI - Report writing fundamentals for police and correctional officers SN - 0131102729 [paperback] PY - 2005/// CY - Upper Saddle River, New Jersey PB - Pearson/Prentice Hall KW - Police reports KW - Authorship KW - Report writing N1 - Includes index; Contents: Section I Reporting writing fundamentals and sample report writing exercise; Chapter one Introduction -- Chapter two Writing in the active voice -- Chapter three Reporting writing mechanics, style, and editing -- Chapter four Writing sample police reports -- Chapter five Writing sample correctional reports -- Chapter six Testifying in court -- Section II Review of english grammar, syntax, and construction; Chapter seven Verb form and tenses -- Chapter eight Agreement of subject and verb -- Chapter nine Capitalization -- Chapter ten Punctuation -- Chapter eleven Internal punctuation -- Chapter twelve Adjectives and adverbs -- Chapter thirteen Pronouns -- Chapter fourteen Topic sentences -- Chapter fifteen Case of pronouns -- Chapter sixteen Spelling ER -