A good report can lose credibility if it is shabbily written or poorly organized. We recommend that you submit to relentless revision in order to polish your report. The best way to start this is to set the report aside for a day so that when you return to it, you do so with fresh eyes and energy. Give yourself a breather.

In the revision stage, your objective is to ensure that your report measures up to the four C's of business writing. This means that your report should be clear, complete, concise, and correct.

Your report is clear if it is fully understood at first reading. By concise, we mean that all information is down to an intelligent and intelligible minimum. Your report is complete when every piece of essential information has been included. Finally, your report is correct when all information is both accurate and verifiable.