tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7794927480752850942.post846898265936881359..comments2024-03-25T14:36:16.797-04:00Comments on The Crime Writers' Chronicle: All Purpose Progress ReportUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7794927480752850942.post-66332905133997562222013-11-01T00:40:38.981-04:002013-11-01T00:40:38.981-04:00I used to teach Report Writing to detectives at th...I used to teach Report Writing to detectives at the NYC Police Academy, as you know. The bosses gave me as little as one hour, with a hundred or more in the audience. I never learned if any of it took: if they were still "exiting (their) vehicles" or "proceeding to...(arrest a perp? beat someone up? or, just "go to meal")... Scratch that! An investigator once approached me in a fish house in Montauk, LI, to say, with obvious surprise, that he still used a cluster technique I showed him for organizing facts for a report: jotting down bits randomly as they came to mind, then circling the connected bits till the structure came clear...Enough vindication!<br /> robert knightlyhttp://robertknightly.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7794927480752850942.post-31804880156306145502013-10-30T10:41:08.703-04:002013-10-30T10:41:08.703-04:00Love it. If I had a boss I'd hand it to him. H...Love it. If I had a boss I'd hand it to him. Her.Kate Gallisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06107289413804236810noreply@blogger.com