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ECNG 3020 - Report Checklist

The ECNG 3020 Final Report Checklist outlines essential quality criteria for report writing, including task orientation, accuracy, clarity, concreteness, visual appeal, style, organization, and retrievability. Each criterion includes specific actions to ensure the report meets academic standards, such as reviewing content requirements, verifying data validity, and ensuring proper formatting. The checklist serves as a comprehensive guide to help students produce clear, well-structured, and visually appealing reports.

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ECNG 3020 - Report Checklist

The ECNG 3020 Final Report Checklist outlines essential quality criteria for report writing, including task orientation, accuracy, clarity, concreteness, visual appeal, style, organization, and retrievability. Each criterion includes specific actions to ensure the report meets academic standards, such as reviewing content requirements, verifying data validity, and ensuring proper formatting. The checklist serves as a comprehensive guide to help students produce clear, well-structured, and visually appealing reports.

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ECNG 3020 - FINAL REPORT CHECKLIST

Index of Quality Description Items for Action ( attend to each item separately and in turn)
Task Orientation: • Review the content requirements of the report – consult manual, supervisor’s notes, marking
Single focus - succinctly and completely report on your research. scheme
• Make a list of what you need to report on
• Determine if you have covered them
Easy to use
Accuracy: • Ascertain if your results are verifiable
Freedom from error –validity of the data and grammatical correctness • Determine if they need further testing/validation
• Report truthfully
• Review for grammar errors; ask a trusted person to review your work.
Clarity: • Review for clarity – ask yourself if you have chosen the best word and the best sentence structure
Freedom from ambiguity – meaning is clear from the first reading. to convey meaning. Opt for familiar words and simple sentence structures.
Concreteness: • Ensure that all required non-text items are well integrated and captioned
Inclusion of appropriate examples, illustrations, drawings, graphs etc. to
aid understanding
Visual appeal: • Verify that you have used double line spacing for the body of your report
Easy to Attractiveness through easy to discern colouring, easy to read • Ensure that you use single line spacing for references, long quotations that are set apart from text
understand typography and clear and well-labelled non-textual items (diagrams, and appendices
drawings, graphs etc.). • Choose 12 point TNR or another simple serif font for body text and Sans Serif font for headings
• Ensure that all equations, graphs, circuitry are generated by and inserted using appropriate
software – no hand written insertions
Style: • Verify that you have used standard notation where required
Correct application of appropriate writing and referencing conventions. • Review your report for tone – it should be formal. Eliminate colloquialisms and contractions. Avoid
the use of the first person perspective
• Review your both your in-text and end of text citations ensure that they adhere to CMoS
Organisation: • Ensure that your chapters and sections are appropriately ordered and labelled
Coherent arrangement of parts that makes the logical flow of ideas • Review each chapter to ensure that ideas are logically ordered and adequately developed
possible and the connection amongst ideas clear and apparent. • Use transitions, such as ‘first’, ‘next’, ‘then’, to connect ideas and provide guideposts for the reader
Easy to find
Retrievability: • Verify pagination – front material in Roman numerals, everything else in Arabic
Presentation of information for quick and easy retrieval. Tables of • Check the accuracy of your table of contents, list of tables, list of figure, list of symbols
content, tables of figures etc. must be well-presented and accurate. • Ensure that chapters are appropriately headed, appendices are labelled, non-text items are
captioned

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