How to Talk About Your Data

You collected the data. Now comes the part most people get wrong.

This free two-page guide cuts through the most common mistakes practitioners make when writing about survey results — overclaiming what perception data proves, burying the response rate, hiding low scores, floating quotes without context, and reporting numbers without connecting them to action. Each mistake gets a before-and-after example so you can see exactly what to change.

Whether you're writing a school board report, a superintendent update, a grant narrative, or a funder progress report — the rules are the same. Say what you measured, not what you think you proved.

Practical, plain-language, and built for the people doing the work — not evaluation specialists.

What's in this download:

• Five plain-language reporting rules with examples

• Before-and-after sentence rewrites for the five most common mistakes

• The Golden Rule of data reporting — one sentence worth printing and posting

  
  

Free download. No email required.