Common mistakes in a report
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Common mistakes in a report
Hints on doing it correctly
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Table
• Centre column headings• Make columns just wide enough, with different
width for criteria column
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Table
Never make headings from table columns into Heading2 or Heading2
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Table
Format all tables in a document the same, i.e. line spacing, paragraph spacing, font style and size
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Table
Align text in narrow columns left, never fully justified
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Table
Align table with body text, not like this
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Table
Keep table inside page text boundaries, not like this in the margin
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What is wrong with the table?
Column widths
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Indentation
Indent so that all text begins at the same place
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Footnote
• Do not set a footnote on a heading• Body text under headings must be on the
topic of the headings, not this gumph
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Headings
Body text under headings must be on the topic of the headings, not this waffle
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Footnote
End sentence with a point or full stop
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Font
Use same font for Table of contents and Table of figures, not this mish mash of font styles
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Font
• Format whole document with same font• Modify headings so they are same font as
body font• Format text as colour only if printing in colour
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Bullets
Bullet lists
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Information
Explain or discuss the table and the chart, do not expect the reader to decipher the tables and charts
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Introduction
Discuss what is coming, all the topics which are in the headings
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What should be in the Conclusion?
Short summary of all that has been discussed, all the headings
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Text
Start paragraph with most important sentence, i.e. do not bury it in the body
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What is wrong with the font?Style and caps
Keep to ONE font and no caps (shouting)
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Text
Start paragraph with important meaningful word, not ‘It’
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Captions
Give meaningful captions to figures and tables, not these meaningless captions
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Headings
Present text in the order of the heading, not like this example
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Cross referencing
Cross reference tables and figures in the body of the text