Overview of a Lab Report-
As you are probably aware, a lab report contains a number of sections. If you can understand the function and purpose of each of these sections, it makes it a lot easier to write a good report. Below is an overview of the main functions you need to achieve in each section; more detailed information about putting together a lab report is covered after that.
1. ABSTRACT: Providing an overview of the study- its aims, method, results, and implications
2. INTRODUCTION: Explaining the importance of the study and how it addresses a problem or gap in the literature
a. Identifies the general relevance of the area of study
b. Provides a purposeful and critical integrative overview of relevant existing knowledge on the topic (including definitions).
c. Identifies the specific rationale and aims for this study within this topic and their contribution to addressing a problem.
d. Provides hypotheses (or where appropriate research questions) that follow from a reasoned argument stemming from reviewed literature.
e. Demonstrates conventions of scientific writing
3. METHOD: A detailed description of what was done to answer the research question
a. Provides a detailed description of the sample and the sampling methods.
b. Provides a detailed description of the materials and procedure such that an independent reader could replicate the study as conducted.
4. RESULTS: A detailed description of how the data were prepared and analysed, and what was found
a. Presents relevant descriptive statistics to contextualise research questions/hypotheses
b. Specifies the analyses conducted to address particular research questions.
c. Reports and describes the results of these analyses (but does not interpret them).
5. DISCUSSION: Interpretation and synthesis of the results in relation to (i) the hypotheses, (ii) the research question/aims, and (iii) the broader literature
a. Summarises the aims of the study and the results in comparison to the hypotheses (or research questions).
b. Provides an explanation/interpretation of the results that contextualises them within the world (implications) and the broader literature.
c. Identifies, explains and discusses any limitations which compromise the internal or external validity of the study.
d. Provides directions for future research that stem directly from the results of the current study.
e. Summarises the contribution to the literature with respect to the aims of the study.
f. Demonstrates conventions of scientific writing.
Journals-
1. Bedtime procrastination: A self-regulation perspective on sleep insufficiency in the general population by Floor M Kroese, Catharine Evers, Marieke A Adriaanse and Denise TD de Ridder
2. Explaining why larks are future-oriented and owls are present-oriented: Self-control mediates the chronotype-time perspective relationships by Taciano L. Milfont and Miriam Schwarzenthal
3. Morningness-eveningness, sleep-wake variables and big ?ve personality factors by Christoph Randler
Assignment link -
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wlyz0w93mkzvo19/Assignment%20Lab%20Report.rar?dl=0