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Permalink Reply by Kai Weber on February 22, 2012 at 4:05am

Hi, Gursheesh, I can offer a couple of ideas:

• If you have such an "Objective" section at all, it should summarize who should read the document, when and why to read it, and what that person can expect to achieve. "Stating what the document covers" is a synopsis, not an objective.
• Whether such an "Objective" section is necessary depends on the type of document, its title and its audience. If the audience is limited, for example, to a homogenous groups of colleagues or if the title clarifies what readers can expect to know or achieve by reading the document, I think you're better off without such a section. Including it might then just be a redundant formalism that adds little or no value.

Just my two cents. Cheers, Kai.

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Permalink Reply by Gursheesh on February 22, 2012 at 4:40pm

Thanks Kai,

That helped a lot.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Baker on February 22, 2012 at 7:58am

If the Objective is not clear from the title, people will not read the document. If the objective is clear from the title, people will not read the Objective section.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Bister on February 23, 2012 at 9:55am

Totally agreement. Writing informative headlines that speak for themselves saves excessively on writing explications in the copy text. I guess that "Discover our company's last innovations" might to a better work than "Objectives".

Regards
Michael

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Permalink Reply by Sanjay G on February 26, 2012 at 9:46pm

i also agree that the heading should be self explanatory. It should oblige the reader to read it.

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