At the end of the project, if there are any problems in the balance of the work, the
journal should make that fact very clear. At the end of the project, team members can
add up their hours spent on the project; if anyone has spent a little more than her share
of time working, the other members can make up for it by buying her dinner or some
reward like that. Similarly, as you get down toward the end of the project, if it's clear
from the journals that one team member's work responsibilities turned out, through no
fault of his own, to be smaller than those of the others, he can make up for it by doing
more of the finish-up work such as typing, proofing, or copying.
Setting up a style guide or style sheet. Because the individual sections will be written by
different writers who are apt to have different writing styles, set up a style guide in
which your team members list their agreements on how things are to be handled in the
paper as a whole. These agreements can range from the high level, such as xxxxxxxxxxxx,
all the way down to picky details such as xxxxxxxxxxxx. See the example of such a
project style sheet.
Before you and your team members write the first rough drafts, you can't expect to cover
every possible difference in style and format. Therefore, plan to update this style sheet
when you review the rough drafts of the individual sections and, especially, when review
the complete draft.