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Guidelines on Writing a Lab Report

Students at North South University are required to write a laboratory report for each experiment in the Bio-Organic Chemistry Lab, which must include sections on Purpose, Introduction, Materials, Methods, Results, and Discussion. Each section has specific guidelines on content and structure, emphasizing the importance of original work and proper scientific writing. Important formatting notes include including names and IDs, underlining scientific names, and ensuring clarity and completeness in writing.

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Guidelines on Writing a Lab Report

Students at North South University are required to write a laboratory report for each experiment in the Bio-Organic Chemistry Lab, which must include sections on Purpose, Introduction, Materials, Methods, Results, and Discussion. Each section has specific guidelines on content and structure, emphasizing the importance of original work and proper scientific writing. Important formatting notes include including names and IDs, underlining scientific names, and ensuring clarity and completeness in writing.

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North South University

Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology


CHE202L Bio-Organic Chemistry Lab

Guidelines on Writing a Laboratory Report


Students are required to write a laboratory report for each experiment that they would be
performing in the laboratory.

The laboratory report should include the following sections:

1. Purpose
2. Introduction
3. Materials (Reagents and Apparatus)
4. Methods
5. Results (including calculations and figures, if necessary)
6. Discussion

Section 1: Students should describe why they are doing the experiment in one sentence.

Section 2: It starts with a description of the background information of the experiment. This
section discusses why it is important to carry out the intended experiment. This section ends
with a brief statement of the findings of the experiment.

Section 3: It discusses the name of the reagents and the types of apparatus that is used in the
experiment.

Section 4: It explains the experimental steps.

Section 5: It describes the observations made during the experiment. No interpretations are
made in this section. This section includes graphs (figures) and calculations, if necessary.

Section 6: It includes interpretation of the observations made during the experiments.

 Students will be provided questions for the “Discussion” section which they must
answer. All the questions must be attempted. The writing should be in the form of
paragraphs and not in a question-answer pattern.
 Bullet points may be used where necessary but do not write the entire discussion in
bullet points.
 The length of the discussion will not be considered. A short discussion with the relevant
points would be treated equal to a long discussion with the relevant points.

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 Close similarity in discussions between students would result in a lower score for
everyone involved.

Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 can be found in the laboratory booklet/handouts and students can
directly quote from there.

Important points to note

 Write the Name and ID of the experiment, date, and page numbers at the starting page of
every report.
 Underline scientific names and follow proper method for writing scientific names.
 If figures are constructed, their corresponding legends must also be written at the bottom
of the figures.
 Do not mention things that have not been done in the experiment. Only write what you
have actually done.
 Write logically and do not write any incomplete sentence.

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