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work submitted to a client who has a problem he cannot solve. Give him 

 the best answer you can, the best thinking you can contribute, the most 

 data you can collect, the clearest English you can write — all in the fewest 

 words. 



Publication Style 



If a report is written for a definite publication, the style of that pub- 

 publication should be ascertained and followed; if the report is not for 

 publication, the writer should select a style and follow it. Abbreviation, 

 capitalization, compounding, use of numerals, punctuation, tabular form, 

 and references must be correct, but they must also be consistent. Com- 

 mercial publishers and learned societies ^ usually have style books, and it 

 is suggested that the prospective writer obtain one of these. 



Foremost style manuals to be recommended are the United States 

 Government Printing Office Style Manual^- A Manual of Style,^ Words into 

 Type,'^ and Suggestions to Authors of Papers Submitted for Publications 

 by the United States Geological Survey.^ Further information on abbrevia- 

 tion is available in Abbreviations for Scientific and Engineering Terms.^ 



The preparation and reproduction of illustrations cannot receive full 

 consideration here. Again the reader is referred to handbooks on the sub- 

 ject. The Preparation of Illustrations for Reports of the United States 

 Geological Survey,'^ includes also brief descriptions of processes of repro- 

 duction. Times-Series Charts,^ a manual of design and construction, has 

 been issued as American Standard Z15.2 — ^1938, reaffirmed 1947. 



Creole Well Reports 



Through the courtesy of the Creole Petroleum Corporation, Venezuela, 

 the following procedures are given for making weekly chronological well 

 reports, weekly well-sample reports, completion log reports, and sand 

 data reports. This material was prepared by the geological staff of the 

 Creole Petroleum Corporation. 



Weekly Chronological Well Report 



The weekly chronological well report, as the name implies, is a de- 

 tailed chronological account of activities of the well from the time rigging 



■■ For ejtample, Preparation of Manuscripts, Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Bull., vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 

 307-311, 1948. 



2 United States Government Printing Office Style Manual, Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Gov- 

 ernment Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C, 1945. (An Abridged Style Manual, containing material in 

 the unabridged- edition except the part that is of interest solely to printers, is obtainable from the ea.Tie 

 source.) 



^ A Manual of Style, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, III., 1937. 



^ Skillin, Marjorie E., and Gay, Robert M., IVords into Type, App'.eton-Century-Crofts, Inc., New 

 York, N. Y., 1948. 



* Wood, G. McL., Suggestions to Authors of Papers Submitted for Publication by the United States 

 Geological Survey, 4th ed., Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, 

 25, D.C, 1935. 



^Abbreviations for Scientific and Engineering Terms: Am. Soc. of Mechanical Engineers, 29 West 

 39th St., New York, N. Y., 1941. 



' Ridgeway, J. L., The Preparation of Illustrations for Reports of the United States Geological Survey, 

 Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C, 1920. 



' Time-Series Charts: Am. Soc. of Mechanical Engineers, New York, N. Y., 1938, reaffirmed 1947. 



