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Jim Butcher, author of “Cold Days.”

“…have a conversation, they're communicating on five levels.
They follow the conversation that they're actually having, the
conversation that is specifically being avoided, the tone being
applied to the overt conversation, the buried conversation that is
being covered only in subtext, and finally the other person's
body language…“

4. Write the report

Always, always have someone check over your report before you send it out.

Spellcheck is a must.
Third person, past tense:
(Mrs. Jones stated the red car “blew through the stop sign.” )

Never speculate. Never jump to conclusions.
It’s okay to quote the interviewee.

You, the investigator, must be nearly invisible. The reader must not know the
sex of the investigator- you are always and only ‘the investigator.’
Make sure you have page numbers in your footer.

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