ABSTRACT
Reviewing is essential in order to ensure that the work reflects the integrity and the standards of the company or the department. Criticising matters of style is a much more delicate business. The variations between the reviewer's and the writer's style are likely to be the result of different ages, upbringings and educations. A great deal of time can be saved by circulating specifics of the areas in which consistency is required beforehand. This is a particularly good idea if the contributors to the report are working in different places. The coordination of the contributions of a committee also produces wide problems of management. If different vested interests are represented or different principles, disagreement is bound to arise and inevitably sometimes bitterness. Great care must be taken to ensure that the manuscript and, later, the typescript is circulated safely during its preparation. It is rare for the whole document to go astray, although such things have happened.
