In the Executive Summary, summarize your research and your purpose. The executive summary should be a stand-alone document. It should be written in such a way that a busy executive could read the executive summary and know exactly what the paper is about without reading the rest of the paper.
“White Papers: An Introduction to the Genre and Its Expectations,” from the Purdue OWL “What is a White Paper?” by Mak Pandit You may take any of the following approaches: a white paper to an internal audience – written to individuals within an organization you work for or are a part of. […]