General Guidelines
Title:
Your name (please underline) and your lab partner(s) name(s).
Title is informative and concise.
General:
Writing is clear and concise. Lab report reflects careful proofreading.
Correct grammar and spellings are used throughout.
Subheadings are used for the different sections.
Introduction:
Background information necessary to understand paper is given, any unusual terms are
defined.
What is known and what is unknown are described.
Flow of thought leading to your objectives is clear.
Research question(s) (objectives of the study) is/are clearly described.
Previous work is cited and there is a clear description of the current state of the field and
the questions remaining.
Awakes the readers’ interest.
Materials and Methods:
All procedures used are described in narrative format as actually performed (don’t just
copy the lab manual) and written in the past tense.
Appropriate level of detail is given so that experiments could be repeated, without
unnecessary detail.
Company, city and country are given for any specialized equipment or biological
reagents.
How data was collected is detailed.
How data was analyzed is described including statistical methods and computer software.
Results:
Figures and tables are clear and appropriately labeled. (All figures and tables appear at
end of paper).
Tables have a title and figures have legends (title is included in legend).
Figure legends and captions clearly describe what is in each figure.
A clear description of results of all stages of the investigation is provided in narrative
format.
Figures and tables are cited in the text.
Text does not repeat the data in the tables rather summarizes key points.
No interpretation is given.
Discussion:
