Moshe Shetrit

Writing for Engineering

Professor Stemberg 

Elelments of a Lab Report:

• Title: Keep the title informative but make sure the reader will be interested to keep reading. Meaning, don’t just put “Quarantine”, say it like this: “The Effects Quarantine had on College Students in New York.” 
•  Abstract: summarization of the entire lab report and its structure. Take a linne or two from each section of the structure and put it in a paragragh.
•  Introduction: literraly in the word. Introuduce the topic in a few sentences, focusinng on what the topic is about, but not too much so this way the reader will want to read the entire report. 
• Materials and Methods:  Write out your processes in a way that your reader can replicate your work. Mention a list of materials that you used for your lab report.  
• Results: Also in the word. Let the reader know what the results were from your report. Either with data or showing if your hypothesis was right or not. Keep it informative.  
• Discussion: Discuss the details of your results. List the questions you had and answer them. 
• Conclusion:  Summarize the main points from your lab rebort into onne or two paragraghs. Review the purpose of your research or experiment and hypothesis/hypotheses that you tested. 
• References: this is usually where you would create a works cited page or a bibliography to cite the information of your lab report. Could be from a website, book, newspaper, etc. Just make sure to cite it!