ABSTRACT
The report writing process continues to warrant discussion and study, however, for professionally aware technical writers or editors are probably made, not born. A report writer must always keep in mind certain of the old axioms. A writer in industry must proceed carefully and conscientiously to organize, to structure—to provide, in other words, an overall arrangement of his material. Redundancy has been found helpful but not essential, provided the basic information appears in any given piece of writing; however, in most cases the reader will balk, sometimes seriously, if the material appears in too dense a form. Transitions, both between paragraphs and within them come with effort, but the effort pays much in reader ease and in making one’s writing fully effective as an informative document. The stories are legion regarding faux pas that create problems, such as the writer who left off a cipher, so that 100,000 became 10,000.
