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Structure of a scientific report

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Inform other people about you topic and experiments o To do this well, communicate succinctly – so another scientist can follow and change if needed o A way of cumin coating between scientists

Hourglass: Introduction (Broad): Setting the scene and giving a broad context for the experiment then describing the reasoning for what you did Discussion(Broad)w: Interpretation of your results and placing them in the broad context of your field of research •

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Good to write a framework before writing the real report to help guide you o Try to write for your reader and not yourself while maintaining consistency in structure ▪ Can use subheadings to help flow • Never use “as mentioned above” Don’t assume your reader knows everything and make sure you explain

Searching for scientific literature (see video on Canvas) Primary research sources o Better to use a review paper

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Review paper – Does not record any one particular experiment but rather compiles many papers in the one field and gives a larger paper o Use some of the citations other research papers use in order to extend yourself

Extracting key ideas/concepts from the scientific literature • •

Find key words that you want to use in your report and use those key words to find papers Better to use a mind map to construct an idea

Referencing •

Harvard o Number [1],[2],…. At the end of each sentence which links to the reference list OR o Author,Year after each sentence

Visually communicating your data (e.g. graphing) Include: • • • •

Make sure the correct units are being used Use axis titles Standard Error Bars No title

Statistics • •

T-test o P > 0.05 o P < 0.05 D.f...