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Quick Comparison of Lab Presentation and Report Specifications
This table is meant only to be a summary showing the differences between the two types of way that you discuss your lab. For details on each of the sections and their contents, see the proper Web pages:
- EG1004 Recitation Presentations
- Specifications for Writing your Lab Reports
Presentation |
Report |
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Description |
Section |
Format |
Section |
Format |
Identifying Information | Title Slide | Centered lines | Title Page | Centered lines |
Brief description of your work | Abstract | Paragraph of several sentences | ||
The goal of the lab | Objective | 1-2 short bullets | ||
Why this topic is important | Introduction | 1 slide | ||
Foundation of your work: formulas, background technology | Background Information | Between one and several slides, bullets | Introduction | Several paragraphs |
Materials and equipment you used | Materials | 1 slide, list of bullets | Procedure | First part of procedure section. Sentences, with items separated by commas |
What you did | Procedure | 1-2 slides (preferably 1), list of bullets | Procedure | The remainder of the procedure section, in narrative form: sentences |
What you saw | Data/Observations | What happened: Slides containing bullet descriptions of observations, plus tabular data, pictures of work | Data/Observations | What happened: Paragraphs of sentences, plus tabular data, pictures of work |
Why it happened | Results | Equations presented in background information applied to data, interpretation of what happened. For competition, where you placed | Discussion/Conclusions | First part of section. Equations presented in background information applied to data, interpretation of what happened. For competition, where you placed |
How did you do? | Conclusion | What you succeeded in doing. How you could improve the results. Usually list of bullets | Discussion/Conclusions | Second part of section. Sentences describing what you succeeded in doing, and how to improve things |