Writing an (Eyewitness)Incident Report
Let us hope you never have to write an incident report about real events. Incident reports mean drama- something happened, someone needs to know and somehow, you are right in the middle. You are in the middle because you happened to have been there when the incident happened. Whether you were involved n the incident or not is mostly irrelevant. What matters is that you are an eyewitness to the incident and therefore, the perfect person to tell what happened. The purpose of writing an incident report is to provide facts about a particular occurrence usually to someone in authority. So, maybe the principal needs to know what happened, or the dean of discipline, maybe its the police. Whomever it is that you are writing to, they weren't there when it happened, you were, and now you need to inform them so they can help fix the situation. Drama comes from the Greek word, 'dran' which means 'action'. Now what is the action that you mus...