SECTION
SIX : Abstract
Summarizing the lab
report
Summarize each major section of the lab report--Introduction, Methods,
Results, Discussion, and Conclusion--in 1 sentence each (two if a section
is complex). Then string the summaries together in a block paragraph in
the order the sections come in the final report.
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Help:
You
can think of the Abstract as a miniature version of the whole lab report.
Read each section of the report and boil it down to a sentence. This
means that you need to determine the most important information in each
section.
- Here are some suggestions
for what to include in each sentence of the Abstract:
- Introduction:
research problem of the lab; hypothesis
- Methods: a
quick description of the procedure
- Results: statement
of the overall findings
- Discussion:
judgment about hypothesis; solution for problem
- Conclusion:
what you learned from doing the lab
- Put all these sentences
together into one paragraph with the heading "Abstract."
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