Cricket Lab Writing Help

1. Cricket Lab Writing Help • Format -past tense: it has already been done and what is known has already been discovered - active voice: the subject did the verb • Background Information: - only .edu or .gov - site:.edu or site:.gov will only return those domains in Google

2. Introduction: Important Things • Find background research that ties into your experiment. The previous information will not necessarily directly relate to your lab but it should allow you to make inferences about your crickets behavior. • Think about how the behaviors you observed in your crickets allow them to compete against each other and other difficulties in their environment better. This is where you tie into natural selection. • This is the section where you convince your reader that your experiment is reasonable and interesting. Don’t tell them that it is. Let them be convinced by your brilliant logic.

3. Results • Make sure your table and graph have figure numbers (this allows you to easily refer to them in the discussion) • Your written part should only describe observations and trends. It may be only one or two sentences long if that covers the important information.

4. Discussion • Tie it all together here, start the discussion the same way we have been doing conclusions. • A discussion is a big conclusion where you now EXPLAIN the reasons for what you saw and what you believe your data suggests about cricket behavior. • Your explanation will be much easier if you use natural selection as a framework explain your results.