A workshop was developed at the Bank of Canada to give instruction in writing brief summaries of financial analyses to junior economists entering the bank after university. These employees were expected to write these analyses for the senior officers of the institution. It had been found that the specialists had not learned strategies for exploring their statistical data with the objective of identifying the deeper meaning or story in the data and then presenting it in the expected format. They had been following a restrictive sequence of procedures and producing unconnected series of relatively superficial observations about their data, which did not satisfy their audience's need for a story. The workshop had three goals: to make explicit the information needs of the readers, to develop the specialists' ability to use writing strategies for better analysis, and to enable the specialists to provide sharply focused and effectively structured summaries that represented their best judgment, as technical experts, about the essential story contained in the data. The content of the workshop included discussion of the writing process, direct contact with the audience for the texts, and instruction in developing a preliminary writing plan, drafting, and revision. The workshop has resulted in texts containing more meaningful analyses, more direct discussion of the analyses between the specialists and the senior officer, and increased confidence and analytical capabilities in the specialists. (MSE)