Students will do an experimental project and report their results in a 2-3 page paper. Students will write weekly lab reports. Reports are written directly in lab notebooks, during the regular lab time.
Reports are brief, with an emphasis on describing procedure and presenting conclusions.
There are no writing assignments for this course. This course will include one short writing assignment, due about two-thirds of the way through the semester. This roughly two-page paper will be a report on laboratory work in a format loosely appropriate for a scientific journal. It must be word-processed, including imbedded equations and figures. Students will write weekly lab reports.