Direct all questions in regard to your review to the Program Coordinator.

1. Does the book describe what it is supposed to?
2. Is it a good reference resource?
3. Is the book a good one to keep for references?
4. Is the documentation clear and easy to understand?
5. Will you be able to put to practical use the information you learned?
6. Is the book written in simple enough language for most people to understand?

SOFTWARE
Information to Include In Your Review for Software

1. What is the program supposed to accomplish?
2. How does the product work?
3. Does it work as advertised?
4. Is it difficult to learn?
5. Is there a genuine need for it?
6. Is the documentation clear and easy to understand?
7. Is customer support a reality?
8. If you only had the review, to make your decision to buy, does it give you sufficient information?

1. Read over your work carefully, check your wording and sentence structure to ensure what you say is what you mean
2. Most important, please check for correct spelling. Use Spell checker.

1. Use a file format that uses an extension TXT or RTF preferably. Failing that check with the Newsletter Editor for his or her preference.
2. Use one space between sentences.
3. Use two carriage returns at the end of paragraphs to create a blank line between paragraphs.
4. Do not indent.
5. Do not use tabs.
6. Get approval of the newsletter editor before using graphics. His or her program may not be compatible with your graphics program.

Format Your Book or Software Review with the Following

1. The name/version of the book/software you are reviewing.
2. The name of the company that produced it.
3. The address of the company, also the tech support number, if available.
4. Give the price of the book/software, if you know it.
5. Give the system requirements if applicable.
6. Include your name as being the reviewer.
7. Give your "PROS" and "CONS" preceded by those words (or equivalent).
8. Email address or Web Page of the Company.

Additional information

Note: "Product" will refer to both books and software.

If anyone wants to review a product they MUST contact the Program Coordinator who will attempt to obtain the product. Under extraneous circumstances a member may be offered a product (for example: because of his or her connection to the company) in which case they MUST contact the Program Coordinator, after accepting it, with intent to do a review of same.

After any review is completed, the reviewer will get to keep the product.

In the case of software, if the program does not work with your computer, it must be returned to the Program Coordinator to be re-assigned to another reviewer.

Reviewers may accept more than one product to review ONLY if no other reviewer is available.

Reviews are due 90 days from receipt of the product and before the following newsletter publication deadline. Failing to meet these deadlines TWICE - not due to problems with the product - is grounds for removal, of the member's name, from the review committee

Once the article is written, the reviewer will email the article to the Program Coordinator, who will then send it to the Editor of the Club's newsletter for publication and to the Webmaster who will put the review on SCUG's web site. After it is published the Program Coordinator will send the supplier of the product an electronic copy of the newsletter and a link to the web site posting.

Original: Dec. 2005
Revision: March 17, 2010