Use this checksheet to help you and your team produce high quality technical documents. You should get in the habit of using the checksheet to monitor your progress as you draft your own reports, help your teammates revise their reports (often called peer editing), and receive feedback from your faculty managers about the quality of your written products.

Team Members:	Section:	Team:
Title Page	Complete descriptive title	yes    no
	Client identified by name, title and organization	yes    no
	Section, team member names, date	yes    no
Table of Contents:	Complete table of contents included	yes    no
	Pages numbered	yes    no
	Sections in the correct order	yes    no
	Missing sections (specify)	yes    no
Executive Summary:	Provides clear/complete synopsis of report	yes    no
Introduction:	Clarifies background and describes project objectives	yes    no
Conclusions:	Accurate synopsis of important conclusions	yes    no
	If more than one, presented in a logical sequence	yes    no
Recommendations:	Accurate synopsis of important recommendations	yes    no
	If more than one, presented in a logical sequence	yes    no
Discussion of results:	Adequate description of work completed	yes    no
	Adequate technical information to justify conclusions	yes    no
	Adequate number of reference citations	yes    no
Citations:	Introduction	yes    no
	Discussion of results	yes    no
	Figures and tables	yes    no
	Accepted citation format used	yes    no
References:	All citations are included in the reference list	yes    no
	References used are current	yes    no
	Interviews (personal communications) included	yes    no
Visual Aids:	Figures and tables are easy to read	yes    no
	Visual aids are numbered and have descriptive titles	yes    no
	Figures and tables are appropriately placed	yes    no
	Visual aids are discussed in the text	yes    no
Appendices:	Each appendix has an alpha or numeric designation	yes    no
	Each appendix has a descriptive title	yes    no
	All appendices are cited in the text	yes    no
	Appropriate information included in appendices	yes    no

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