Writing a report that survives a management change
Assume the reader was not there and has no reason to trust you.
Start with what was implemented and why, in the words of whoever decided it. Not a summary. The actual sentence, so the new reader can judge whether the original goal still applies.
Then the baseline, whether it was measured or reconstructed, said plainly. A report that hides the difference will be caught, and everything else in it goes with it.
Then every number with a footnote that resolves to the responses or the file it came from. The reader who does not trust you can follow one number to its source, find it holds, and stop checking. That is what the appendix is for.
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