Chapter 5 Planning

DOI: 10.1201/9781003216162-7

This chapter is as important as the previous ones, and complements them. If you are willing to analyze your thoughts rigorously and seek the best words to convey them, then it’s only right to organize them logically.

You may think that your organization’s suite of standard templates will help you, and they may. That is, they may guide you as to which information goes in which parts of the template. What they won’t do is your thinking for you. That you must do yourself. Not only will it produce better reports, but it will make you feel more organized, confident, and in control of your subject matter. You’ll be surprised by how many benefits there are to organizing your thoughts before writing – ...

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