Greg Said:

I am in a college biology course-- what is the proper way of writing a lab report?

We Answered:

If your instructor gave you any specific instructions on what they want you to do, follow that. Otherwise, a typical lab report should have six sections:

Abstract - Give an overview of the experiment, including your major conclusion, and why that finding is important. Generally, this should be no more than a paragraph.

Introduction/Background - Explain the purpose of the experiment, and give any background that's necessary to understand the experiment. This is where you should talk about previous research that's been done on the topic (which should including citing other papers).

Methods - Describe exactly what you did. Number your steps and use the past, passive tense. Include quantities, incubation times, and any other relevent details. A scientist you've never met or talked to should be able to pick up your methods section and repeat exactly what you did (and hopefully get the same result). This section can go either right after the introduction, or at the end of the report, between the discussion section and references.

Results - This one's pretty self-explanatory. Present your data. This section should generally include several figures with detailed captions, as well as a written description of your data. Each figure should be able to stand alone with nothing but it's caption, so the caption should include the name of the procedure you used, any relevent information about quantities of reagents or similar details, and a verbal description of the information presented in the figure.

Discussion - This is where you explain what your data means in terms of the big-picture questions you're looking at, and talk about where this line of research could go in the future.

References - List all the references you used to write your report. This list should be numbered and in alphabetical order.

When in doubt, look at articles from peer-reviewed scientific journals, and try to stick to that format as much as possible.

Maurice Said:

How do i write a report for my engineering course?

We Answered:

Did you never learn how to write outlines in junior high English classes???
A basic outline is as follows


TITLE

OPENING STATEMENT WHICH INCLUDES MAIN OBJECTIVE


A. Your intentions or attempts to achieve your main objective
1. First method of achieving main objective
2. Second Method of achieving main objective
3. Any other method of obtaining main objective.

B. First method of obtaining main objective
1. What worked
a. include data and explanation of data
2. What didn't work
a. include data and explanation of data

C. Second Method of obtaining objective
1. What worked
a. include data and explanation of data
2. What didn't work
b. include data and explanation of data

D. Any other methods or tests or trials for obtaining objective
1. Include trials that clearly didn't work
a. explain why they clearly didn't work
2. Include odd bits or side effects of trials worth noting
a. include data pertaining to odd side effects, if any
E. CONCLUSION
1. sum up all your data and include your explanation of how data
thoroughly supports your conclusion.




After you have finished with your outline, then write your outline statements into sentences and each section (A,B,C,D,E) is its own paragraph. Be sure to include a bibliography of all of your references and cite the authors of any direct quotes from another source.

Good Luck. The above is a standard outline, once everything is outlined like the above, the writing of the paper becomes easier. Do include good graphs in your paper to show your data. Sometimes a good graph can help explain data far better than words.

Victoria Said:

I'm writing a report for my IT course however I don't understand what it means by "business processes"?

We Answered:

Some major business processes: procurement or purchase of materials and equipment, production (to include packaging and packing), marketing and sales, collection, payment of taxes and other bills, accounting and auditing, procurement of land, building and equipment is also called "capital outlay".

The Excel program is used in accounting and preparation of vouchers and financial reports. Word is used for simple written reports.

Wanda Said:

Analyze this quote: Of course, writing book reports is not exactly the kind of writing I want to do. I dont...?

We Answered:

This guys wants to write fiction.