Quick Comparison of Lab Presentation and Report Specifications

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
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

 

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