Producing Formal Reports [LO-4] One aspect of producing a formal report is writing a concise executive summary that allows the reader to understand the outline of the report before reading it. 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. Alternatively, go to the website and select one of the sample reports offered, write an executive summary of it, and share this with your instructor.