WHEN YOU WRITE A FORMAL EXPERIMENT REPORT, BE SURE TO FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES LISTED BELOW:

• YOUR FORMAL EXPERIMENT WILL LIKELY BE HANDWRITTEN AS IT IS NOT TOO LIKELY THAT THE COMPUTER WILL BE AVAILABLE NEXT TO YOUR LABORATORY EQUIPMENT.
• PREPARE YOUR EXPERIMENT REPORT, WITH AN EMPTY DATA TABLE BEFORE GOING TO THE LABORATORY
• AS YOU DO THE EXPERIMENT, RECORD ALL MEASUREMENTS DIRECTLY INTO YOUR LAB REPORT. DO NOT USE SCRAP PAPER FOR THIS PURPOSE. IF YOU WRITE YOUR DATA ON A "SCRAP" PIECE OF PAPER YOU RISK LOSING THIS PIECE OF PAPER AND YOU WILL ALSO MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO MAKE TRANSCRIPTION ERRORS.
• ALL LAB REPORTS SHOULD BE WRITTEN IN PEN. PEN IS THE USUAL MEDIUM FOR RECORDING SCIENTIFIC DATA AS IT PROVIDES A PERMANENT RECORD AND PREVENTS OTHERS FROM ERASING YOUR WORK.
• ALL LAB REPORTS SHOULD CONTAIN NO WHITEOUT OR ERASURE MARKS. PEOPLE IN SCIENTIFIC CAREERS SUCH AS DOCTORS, NURSES AND PHARMACISTS DO NOT WALK AROUND WITH THEIR BOTTLE OF WHITEOUT OR WITH AN ERASURE. WHEN YOU TAKE A SCIENCE COURSE, YOU SHOULD LEARN THE HABITS OF THOSE WORKING IN SCIENCE RELATED OCCUPATIONS.
• CORRECTION OF ERRORS SHOULD HAPPEN IN AN ORGANIZED FASHION. PUT A SINGLE LINE THROUGH YOUR UNWANTED INFORMATION. BESIDE THIS OR ABOVE THIS WRITE THE CORRECTED VERSION OF WHAT YOU WANTED TO WRITE.
• LEAVE AN EMPTY LINE BETWEEN THE VARIOUS SECTIONS (TITLE, DATE, PURPOSE, MATERIALS, ETC.) OF YOUR LAB REPORT.
• LOOK AT THIS SUGGESTED LAB REPORT FORMAT