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Write A Lab Write Up

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Part A. A lab write up can make or break your results in the science world. Structure is very important. The article “Materials & Methods” is basically a step by step how to guide for anyone learning how to write a lab report. The introduction should include (in this order); a hypothesis, methods, and the results. The hypothesis explains why the experiment is being conducted, how it connects to previous research, and what the person conducting it expects to happen in the experiment. The methods of the lab explains how the experiment was tested and why the study was preformed in the way that it was. It is also crucial that you include a list of materials used in the section or it will prevent the reader from understanding what actually happened in the lab. The results should be both explained and shown in some sort of table/graph. The most important factor of this section should be the explanation of whether …show more content…

The amount of detail included in the lab write up can make or break it. If you include too much, you're just beating a dead horse. With that being said, you don't want to under inform. It is important to know the balance of detail to produce a well written report. Don't include any information that would make a difference to the readers understanding if it wasn't included in the report. I really liked the phrase “recipe” that was used in the “Materials & Methods” article. It gave a very good example of how not to narrate the write up. It should be told how it was done, not how to do it. The order and specification of the order in which you did things is important. Writing the article from a narrative standpoint vs. bullet points provides more information for the reader as well as sets up a better opportunity to recreate the

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