10th November 2005, 01:38 PM
Agree completely on all counts.Not only are a large proportion of excavation reports inadequate and "conveyor-belt" bread and butter,some are simply contrived nonsense. The reports that find their way onto your desk eggie are a snippet of what we`ve all been banging on about for years-it`s just not working at a systemic level. I really do feel the way forward is to embedd practitioners of the industry in the teaching frameworks of the degrees. Simple writing skills can be taught alongside the mechanics of report writing. The disturbing part of this is.....if we`re not all using the same language, how do we understand eachother? If graduates have`nt grasped the concepts involved in report writing-they`ve been very badly let down by their universities.
