Laboratory Reports

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Content & Format
Engineering and science students are frequently required to write laboratory reports, which record precisely the procedures they follow in conducting laboratory experiments. Every discipline, every course, and every professor seems to require a different format and style, and different kinds of laboratory experiments are often reported in different ways.

Since it is impossible to describe one right way to compose a lab report, a generally applicable format for a lab report is provided thourhg the above link, leaving you to adapt this format to your particular situation, the lab work you are doing, and the preferences of your professor.


Information on Lab Reports from materials prepared by:
Jenny Skerl
The Writing Center
4508 Sage Laboratory
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute