Edit Your Report

Ensure your report is error-free and tells a clear story

However good your report looks, if it contains errors then it is flawed. The presence of errors will cast doubt on the care taken in preparing the report and adequacy of the argument; in education it can cause your report to be marked down.

You must always allow time for a series of editing checks to make sure:

• The argument is correct
• That there are no omissions
• There is no superfluous content that waste the reader’s time and can be misleading
• That spelling and punctuation are correct
• That there is consistency between how illustrations are labelled and how they are referred to in the text

There are various functions in WORD, such as the spellchecker and track changes, that help to ensure your report is error-free and tells a clear and coherent story.

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