Collaborative Technical Reports: Superstructure

Most reports will contain some or all the following elements: 

Introductory Materials

• Cover Page
• Table of Contents
• Executive Summary

The Document Proper

• Introduction
• Background and Context (optional section)
• Overview of Alternatives (brief overview, and if necessary, longer technical descriptions)
• Criteria  (moveable part)
• Research and Methods (and, if you want, Writing and Collaboration Methods)
• Results 
• Evaluation
• Conclusion (and, if you want, new Results) 
• Recommendation

Supplemental Materials

• Works Cited
• Appendices

Compare this to a Complex (multi-authored) Feasibility Study: Here