How to write a Design Report
Do not
include a table of figures.
Back Matter
These are the sections that come after the evaluation part of the report
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References The references section has the list of references cited in the report. Use ASME, IEEE
or APA style. (If you don’t know what that means, look it up.) Citations are easier if you use a
citation manager such as Zotero, RefWorks or EndNote. If you are at the University of
Minnesota, the university library has excellent tutorials on using and formatting citations and
using a citation manager.
Appendices Appendices come at the back of the report and are not part of the main body.
Appendices for a design report contain additional detail about the design that would not fit into
the main body because of page limits or because including the detail would distract the reader