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The document provides guidelines for writing lab reports for science classes, including formatting requirements and sections that should be included. It discusses the scientific method and common sections like introduction, methods, results, discussion and citations. It also provides an example lab report title and brief overview of the purpose, background, hypotheses, methods, data and initial analysis and discussion sections.

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LAB REPORT

Some of your science classes at NVSU will require you to complete lab reports or term papers for simple
experiments to show that you understand the scientific method.

The scientific method usually includes

1. an Introduction section
2. a Materials and Methods section
3. a Results section
4. a Discussion section and a Literature Cited section.

The goal of a lab report should be to simply present the facts.

The goal of science is truth, thus no persuasion is necessary in this type of document.

Overall writing formats or guidelines for these lab reports should include the following:

1. The reports should be typed and double-spaced using a computer. Reports should be in 12 point
size, Times New Roman style, have 1 inch margins, and organized neatly for the reader to
understand your experiment.
2. Correct spelling and grammar is a must, and the report should be written in complete sentences
(with subject and verb).
3. Past tense should be used whenever writing about what you did in lab, since what you did
happened in the past.
4. Each section should be labeled with the appropriate heading (Introduction, Materials and
Methods, Results, Discussion, Literature Cited).
5. Do not plagiarize (the "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing and publication" of another
author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions" and the representation of them as one's
own original work).
6. To help with clarity: proof-read, then have somebody else proof-read, and then proof-read
again.

The NEXT page begins an example lab write-up. THIS EXAMPLE IS TEXT LIGHT FOR YOUR BENEFIT. YOUR
PAPER WILL HAVE MORE SOURCES AND WAY MORE TEXT FOR EACH SECTION.
Title: IMPACTS OF NITROGEN ON PLANT GROWTH

Purpose:
The purpose of this lab was to examine the effect of nitrogen fertilization on plant

growth.

Background:
Nitrogen occurs in all living organisms and is believed to be an important nutrient

for plant growth (Chalk 1991). To evaluate the impacts of nitrogen on plant

growth, the aquatic plant American water weed (Elodea canadensis) was grown in

water containing different amounts of nitrogen. Ammonium nitrate was used as

our source of nitrogen fertilizer.

Hypotheses:
The hypothesis tested was that since American water weed requires nitrogen to

make organic compounds like proteins (Chalk 1991), the more nitrogen it has

available, the better it should grow. The null hypothesis was that nitrogen would

have no impact on plant growth.

Materials and Methods:


Five glass cultures bowls were filled with one liter of distilled water. Each bowl

was given a different amount of ammonium nitrate as displayed in Table 1.


Table 1. Grams of ammonium nitrate added to each culture bowl to evaluate the
impacts of nitrate on plant growth.
Bowl No. Ammonium nitrate (g)
1 0g
2 0.1 g
3 1g
4 10 g
5 100 g

Five sprigs of American water weed, with a mass of about 0.4 g , was placed into

each culture bowl. The culture bowls were placed in a growth chamber set to a12-

hour light period per day and an average temperature of 28 °C for three weeks.

Water was added during the course of the experiment to keep the solution level at

one liter in each bowl, but no additional ammonium nitrate was added. At the end

of the three-week period, the mean final mass of each American water weed plant

from each culture bowl was recorded and then compared for analysis. This same

procedure was run again for 5 more bowls to test for experiment consistency.

Data:
We wanted to test to see if the amount of nitrogen fertilizer impacts plant biomass

growth. The graph below shows the relationship of the amount of nitrogen and the

mass of plants.
Analysis and Discussion:
The results of the experiment generally matched what was expected based on the

hypothesis being tested, with the exception of the bowl 5 results. It was thought

that increases in nitrogen would lead to increases in plant growth. Plant mass did

increase with increasing nitrogen in bowls 1 through 4, but declined in bowl 5

(Figure 1). The plant in bowl 5 showed the least growth. It only had one-third of

the mass when compared with the negative control (i.e., bowl 1). Even though it

was given the most nitrogen, the plant in bowl 5 appeared to be dying.
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Conclusion: _________________________________________________________

What Did You Learn from the Experiment: _________________________________________

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