Phase 5 · Write and submit
Report planner
Plan the structure, allocate the word budget, check attribute coverage and record what still needs resolving.
Who this is for:Candidates at any stage
A planning tool for the report — sections, word budget, which attribute areas each section carries, and what is still unresolved.
Word budget
Allocate before you write. Structural problems are far cheaper to fix at this stage than in a finished draft.
5000 words unallocated.
Sections
No sections yet. A workable start is: introduction and role, principal project one, principal project two, other experience, professional commitment and reflection, conclusion.
Everything here is stored in this browser only. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is analysed, and clearing your browser data will delete it — so export anything you want to keep.
Self-review checks
Run these on a finished draft. They take ten minutes and catch most of what a reviewer would notice.
- Count the instances of 'we'. For each one, decide whether you mean I.
- Highlight every sentence containing a decision. A page with none is background.
- Check no attribute area is carried by a single sentence.
- Check every claim of responsibility is one you could defend for ten minutes.
- Check the report against your CV for dates, roles and scale.
- Check every appendix is referenced from the text, and every reference points somewhere useful.
- Check no hyperlink points outside the application.
- Check nothing confidential or security-sensitive has crept in.
- Read it aloud. Sentences you cannot say are sentences a reviewer will not follow.
This tool plans and checks. It does not draft text, generate examples in your voice, or write any part of a submission — the report must be your own work.
Reviewing your own draft
Some checks are worth running on a finished draft, and most of them you can do yourself in ten minutes:
- Count the instances of "we". For each, decide whether you mean I.
- Highlight every sentence containing a decision. If a page has none, that page is background.
- Check each attribute area appears somewhere, and that no area is carried by a single sentence.
- Check that every claim of responsibility is one you could defend for ten minutes.
- Check the report against your CV for dates, roles and scale.
- Check every appendix is referenced from the text, and every reference points somewhere useful.
- Check nothing confidential or security-sensitive has crept in.
Where feedback is given on writing — by a mentor, by a sponsor, or by any software tool — it should identify problems in your text rather than replace your text. Anything that writes substantial passages for you crosses a line that ICE takes seriously.
Related pages and tools
- The report5,000 words in which two strangers have to see your competence: what ICE asks for, how to structure it, and how to edit it.
- Evidence matrixA private record of your projects, your responsibilities and your decisions, mapped against the seven attribute areas.
- AppendicesChoosing evidence that shows your involvement, staying within the limits, and making it legible.
- CVWhat the CV is for in a Professional Review, what reviewers read it for, and how to fit a career into two pages.
- Plagiarism and AIWhat help is legitimate, what is not, and where ICE draws the line — in the submission and in the review itself.