ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with how you present your reports and the kinds of standards used to assess their quality. The focus of the enquiry therefore changes, from validating claims to knowledge (accepting that they are truthful), to validating the report through to assessing its quality (accepting the report as a valid research document). It is worth emphasising that if you wish to have your research and its report legitimised, i.e. accepted in the public domain, you need to develop certain capacities. The first capacity was dealt with in Chapters 10 and 11, to do with how you demonstrate the validity of claims to knowledge, which entered into your broader understanding of what constitutes a good-quality report. The second capacity is to demonstrate your understanding of how to negotiate assessment procedures, in relation to producing what is expected in the form of a report. It also involves the skills of negotiating, when you ask for your report to be judged according to certain criteria and standards. These are issues to do with the politics of knowledge, as well as the politics of how knowledge is used and managed for specific purposes.
