Writing reports can be drudgery, and perhaps this is why reports are so often badly written, president Ian Thompson of the Association of Exploration Geochemists, (aeg), says in a preface to a new booklet on how to write geochemical reports.
Titled Writing Geochemical Reports, Guidelines for Surficial Geochemical Surveys, the new 30-page booklet has been written by Dr S. J. Hoffman, a geochemist with the Selco Division, B.P. Canada Inc. It is published by the aeg, P. O Box 523, Rexdale, Ont. M9W 5L4, and sells for $7 a copy.
People who find report writing hard going will benefit from this booklet. The objective of its guidelines, its author says, is to provide the explorationist with an outline for writing useful geochemical reports, and the guidelines indicate the kind of information needed so that others can make an independent and intelligent interpretation of the same geochemical data.
It takes the reader on a step-by- step how-to progression through the contents of a typical geochemical report, beginning with summary, recommendations, and table of contents, through such other elements as location and access, exploration history, geology and geophysics, and surficial environment to description of results, and conclusions.
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