下面是我们组投稿时用来检查可视化文章专业性和写作的checklists：

可视化文章专业性的checklist： 

1. 看看你的设计是否违反下面的原则：

- Eduard Tufte's's “How not to lie" rules

- 关于颜色使用的rules 

- 关于visual encoding的effectiveness and expressiveness principles

- Tamara教科书里面总结出来的几个rules. 尤其是这三个rules： No 3D, Visualization Mantra （“overview first, zoom and filter, details on demand”）, eyes beat memory

- UI和交互设计的3个rules： 优先级， 一致性， 隐喻

- 平面设计的CRAP原则：Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, Proximity

2. 画出Task， Design， Case studies的connection graph， 保证设计没有多余也没有缺失，每个设计都被case studies使用了。

3. 所有的design都讨论过alternative designs。整个系统或是design的scalability和generalization都讨论到了。

4. 完整的evaluation： case studies， comparison with baseline system(s), expert interview, user study (optional)

5. 文章提前三天做好，按照下面的proofreading checklist 过了一遍，而且送出去做language review。

Proofreading Checklist: 

Grammar

·       Articles

·       Subject-Verb agreement

·       Tense (Past tense is used in related work and conclusions)

·       Run-on sentences (sentence 1, sentence 2)

·       Fragment Sentences

Consistency

·       bulleted list, table title, or figure caption inconsistently capitalized

·       bulleted list, table title, or figure caption inconsistently punctuated

·       heads inconsistently capitalized

·       spelled the same name exactly the same way throughout your paper

Check figures and tables

·       Check figure captions and table titles for consistency of spelling, style, and punctuation

·       Check that figures and tables are positioned close to the text that discusses them

·       Check that the figures and tables are in order (e.g., Fig 7 appearing before Fig. 6 not acceptable)

Aesthetic issues

·       Check that line/page breaks occur at sensible locations (no page starts from a line with a single word)

Check the references

·       Completeness (No missing page numbers, conference name, journal issue, and year)

·       Consistency (Made sure that a journal title, no matter how often it occurs, is always spelled the same way?)

High-level issues

·       Normalization

·       Parallel structure

·       Cohesion

             o Do your sentences "hang together?”
             o Does the sentence/paragraph begin with information familiar and end with interesting information the reader would not anticipate?
             o Will your reader be able to identify quickly the "topic" of each paragraph?