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. Reports are written directly in lab notebooks, during the regular lab time.
Reports are brief, with an emphasis on describing procedure and presenting conclusions.
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 embedded equations and figures. This paper is the only nontrivial piece of writing required in this course. Students record the results of their laboratory work in a notebook.