Prepare your notebook for tables and graphs. For Organic Chemistry classes you must also list in your notebook the physical properties of all reagents to be used in the experiment Your laboratory notebook may be inspected for this material before the lab session. It should be kept separate from the lecture notebook. At the beginning of an experiment its name and the date are recorded. Work done on subsequent days should also be dated.
All data is to be entered in the notebook at the time it is taken.
Data is never taken on scraps of paper and then rewritten into the notebook. Although a notebook should be legible, completeness rather than neatness is what counts. If you make an error, do not tear the page out of the notebook. The proper maintenance of a laboratory notebook is an important part of laboratory procedure. You may have one or more partners in lab.