Edit a multiauthor report

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name: edit-a-multiauthor-report
category: write
description: Edit a multiauthor report into one coherent, evidence-traceable document while preserving specialist meaning, attribution, dissent, and review history. Use when several contributors have drafted overlapping or inconsistent sections.
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# edit-a-multiauthor-report

Unify the reader experience without manufacturing consensus.

## When to use

- Use for research, audit, technical, policy, annual, investigation, or program reports.
- Do not change specialist conclusions, quotations, data, or named accountability without owner review.

## Procedure

1. Confirm purpose, audience, authority, publication route, template, deadlines, sensitivity, and section owners.
2. Freeze source drafts and create one controlled master with version and change rules.
3. Build a report spine for question, scope, method, evidence, findings, conclusions, recommendations, limitations, and annexes.
4. Map duplicate, contradictory, missing, unsupported, and out-of-scope content to owners.
5. Standardize terminology, units, dates, citations, voice, headings, tables, figures, references, and accessibility.
6. Preserve material disagreement and uncertainty with explicit attribution or adjudication.
7. Trace every material claim, number, quote, and recommendation to evidence and accountable review.
8. Run cross-section, specialist, legal or privacy where needed, copy, accessibility, and final-proof review.

## Done

- A controlled report and editorial decision log record structure, sources, owners, conflicts, changes, evidence, reviews, and unresolved items
- Claim, number, term, cross-section, citation, dissent, accessibility, version, and owner-acceptance checks verify publication