1)    General description – color (fresh & weathered), texture (coarse grained, fine grained, variety of sizes, erosive features, foliated, lineated).

2)    Minerals – list each one you can see (with or without a name).

3)    Rock name – commonly includes the minerals, lithology (slate, pelite, quartzite,marble, calc-silicate, volcanic, etc.) and a textural term. ---------- e.g., garnet chlorite biotite schist

4)    Structural observations – cleavage, folded, foliated, lineated, fractured, joints, primary structures, shear bands

-------- make a list of features, and describe them, one by one

-------- each feature should be labeled on a sketch

--------describe it...even if you don't know the name for it

5)    Analysis/Interpretation
i. Kinematic analysis
ii. Dynamic analysis

6)    Conclusions
Talk about the significance of the structural observations and then discuss the geologic history of the specimen.