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Writing Lab Reports will help you in many future career situations. DR. “K”. Interest Education Knowledge Language gender. Idiom, expressions, slang, use of ambigous language. Be clear and concrete… Use proper grammar and avoid misspellings Avoid ambiguity “Easy as pie”
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Writing Lab Reports will help you in many future career situations
DR. “K” • Interest • Education • Knowledge • Language • gender
Idiom, expressions, slang, use of ambigous language • Be clear and concrete… • Use proper grammar and avoid misspellings • Avoid ambiguity • “Easy as pie” • Words with multiple definitions • Slang…etc
Title cont’ • Nature of study-variables studied and approach • Subjects? • Results? • Fancy titles?
Introduction-The inverted pyramid approach • Introduce General topic issues • Tie them together • Problem formation • Specific goal or hypothesis to be tested • Reference all ideas presented…more later
Methods- Subject subsection • -How were subjects recruited/nature of study • Number of subjects/ breakdown by major subject characteristics of interest • Describe other possible commonalities in sample…eg..age, etc
Methods- Procedure subsection • Describe for Dr. K, step by step details of how study was conducted. Start from subject recruitment, end at data collection.
RESULTS • Figure 2: The figure above shows a trend (p < 0.06) for subjects in cued (coffee) and caffeine conditions to perform better than the subjects who received caffeine in the non-cued (capsule) form on the MRT of visuo-spatial ability. The histograms reflect mean scores for each condition with SEM error bars.
Discussion- review results relative to hypothesis or purpose