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Other essential steps in preparing your report

  1. Pay attention to grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Any problems in these areas can distract readers from your main message, or, worse, drive them away entirely.
    1. Read, or reread, Strunk and White, The Elements of Style. It's short, pleasant to read, and always helpful.
    2. Always run your documents through a spelling checker before submitting them to anyone else to read.
    3. Remember also to check manually for problems that a spelling checker can't detect (see below). Often it's very difficult to see such errors in your own writing, so have someone else proofread it too.
  2. Document formatting errors can also be distracting. See the LaTeX section for help in avoiding common errors.
  3. Write clearly and simply, and maintain a level of formality of style. In a team project, different parts of the report will typically be drafted by different members of the team, with inevitable differences in style. One team member should take the role of editor, resolving such differences to achieve a single writing style in the final document.
Ode To My Spell Chequer
Author Unknown
I have a spelling chequer,
It came with my PC.
It plainly marks for my revue,
Miss takes I can not sea.
 
I've run this poem threw it,
I'm sure your please too no.
Its letter perfect in it's weigh,
My chequer tolled me sew.

 

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