Producing Formal Reports [LO-4] One aspect of producing a formal report is writing a concise executive summary which allows the reader to understand the outline content of the report before reading it. Either find a short report using the internet and, ignoring any existing summary, write your own executive summary of the report; share the report and your summary with your instructor and compare your summary with the original; or, go to the website and select one of the sample reports offered. Write an executive summary of the report and share this with your instructor.