On Demand - Analytic Writing (Reporting and Briefs

Analytic Writing

The Treadstone 71 Analytic Writing, Reporting, and Dissemination course cover intensive writing training, exercises, the peer review process, briefings and reviews, report types, and dissemination techniques. We follow the intelligence community and proven academic methods validated and verified through years of execution. The course covers non-inclusively:

Analytic Writing, Reports, and Briefs

How to write effective intelligence reports
- Templates, Case Studies, Assignments
- Editing methods
- Clarity and concise writing
- Rules for Effective Writing
- Tools to assist in simplifying your writing
Intelligence Community Directives
Professional Development Framework - UK
Analytic Writing Standards - Writing Products - Methods to Write Right
AIMS BLUF and the Analytic Line of March - Analytic Progression
The Writers Rubric - Peer Review
Confidence Levels
Likelihood and Probability
Report Types and Templates
Product Line Mapping - Examples
Briefings
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.

There is a minimum of three written assignments that are peer-reviewed and sent back to students:

1. First iteration with recommendations and comments. The student reworks the initial report to adhere to analytic standards, methods, and the rules for effective writing using given templates.

2. Second iteration. The instructor provides a written review and potential rewrite of the target reports.

The course includes a final quiz of concepts and analytic writing methods.

To pass the course: Complete all assignments and pass the quiz (open book).

The student takeaways include writing templates, report templates, case study corrected reports, course documentation and materials. The course is targeted for 2 months to complete.

Your Instructor

Treadstone 71

Treadstone 71 is a woman and veteran-owned small business exclusively focused on cyber and threat intelligence consulting, services, and training. We are a pure-play intelligence shop.

Training dates and locations here

Since 2002, Treadstone 71 delivers intelligence training, strategic, operational, and tactical intelligence consulting, and research. We provide a seamless extension of your organization efficiently and effectively moving your organization to cyber intelligence program maturity. Our training, established in 2008, follows intelligence community standards as applied to the ever-changing threat environment delivering forecasts and estimates as intelligence intends. From baseline research to adversary targeted advisories and dossiers, Treadstone 71 products align with your intelligence requirements. We do not follow the create once and deliver many model. We contextually tie our products to your needs. Intelligence is our only business.

We use intuition, structured techniques, and years of experience.
We supply intelligence based on clearly defined requirements.
We do not assign five people to do a job only one with experience.
We do not bid base bones only to change order you to overspending.

We do not promise what we cannot deliver. We have walked in your shoes. We understand your pressures.

We are known for our ability to:

Anticipate key target or threat activities that are likely to prompt a leadership decision.
Aid in coordinating, validating, and managing collection requirements, plans, and activities.
Monitor and report changes in threat dispositions, activities, tactics, capabilities, objectives as related to designated cyber operations warning problem sets.
Produce timely, fused, all-source cyber operations intelligence and indications and warnings intelligence products (e.g., threat assessments, briefings, intelligence studies, country studies).
Provide intelligence analysis and support to designated exercises, planning activities, and time-sensitive operations.
Develop or recommend analytic approaches or solutions to problems and situations for which information is incomplete or no precedent exists.
Recognize and mitigate deception in reporting and analysis.
Assess intelligence, recommend targets to support operational objectives.
Assess target vulnerabilities and capabilities to determine a course of action.
Assist in the development of priority information requirements.
Enable synchronization of intelligence support plans across the supply chain.
...and Review and understand organizational leadership objectives and planning guidance non-inclusively.