This was my first time working with creating a tutorial and I definitely have learned a lot about what constitutes a proper lab report. The tutorial is similar in every way to what a proper lab report entails. I had to be as detailed as possible when walking the reader through the simulation just as a writer would walk one through a lab experiment. The assumption is that the viewer has little to no background on the topic and your goal is to properly walk them through the process with detailed explanations. The tutorial is the same. It is broken down into many categories and subcategories so that the process is clearly illustrated. I was used to writing lab reports and the arduous process of long paragraphs detailing the process was quite tedious and annoying. This tutorial was more enjoyable than writing a normal lab report because it was heavily visual and even though there was tons of details I had to include I enjoyed the process. I put roughly 20 hours in total over the course of a week. I would give myself an A for this report because of the thoroughness and presentation. It details all of the processes and leaves little to no confusion which could arise because I try to explain all the tasks and directions clearly

Gabriel Almonte 

Reflection  

Grade:85 

Cover image: 10/10 

I believe I used an image that grasps a reader’s attention while also showing detail about the item I was describing. 

Abstract: 8/10 

I believe I explained the results of the lab well while introducing ideas that support why this lab is important. I should’ve gone more in depth on other ways to test whether a gun was the issue or if there were other factors that played roles, or whether other threatening objects would have a similar reaction.  

Introduction: 810  

I believe I introduced the idea that certain factors can affect human memory, but I think I should have provided more detail on how and why this is true.  

Method: 7/10 

I believe I explained the procedure fairly well but for someone who had a hard time understanding the abstract and introduction or didn’t read them wouldn’t fully grasp the exact procedure. 

Resultd:9/10 

I believe I explained the results clearly, stating the different results of the control and experimental group for each of the experiments.  

Discussion: 7/10 

I believe I discussed the issue at hand well, but I should have considered that some of my audience may not have understood the topic, so I needed to simplify it or gone more in depth so the audience can fully grasp the idea. 

Conclusion: 9/10 

I believe I wrapped up the lab report well while explaining why the lab report was important, some ways this can affect the real world, the results of the lab, and left off with a question on how to improve the procedure that may cause different results.  

For my lab report, I wrote about the effects of potassium chloride (KCl) on the swimming speed of Paramecium. In this report, I could improve on my making my report more inclusive for readers. For this report, I had a specific audience, those who have has basic knowledge of biology on the college level. In my report, I spoke of certain lab techniques that might not be common knowledge for students with non-science majors. Taking time in the report to give more details on execution might have benefited my report.

In creating this composition, the most difficult section was the justification. A justification is found at the beginning of a scientific lab report where you state what led to you choosing the experiment you did and what made you come to the assumption you have made in your hypothesis. If I were to do something differently it would be finding out more research on the chemical I used. This would, in turn, help me to construct a stronger justification, because I would have a secure reason behind my hypothesis.

In my opinion, I did best on creating efficient data analysis tables with appropriate labels. I did well not only at computing the numbers correctly but with writing captions and titles also. I used precise significant figures and broke the data into sections that would be easily interpreted. I made sure to not only use tables but graphs to present the data in different forms to show their significance.

I believe, that based on the work I have submitted, I deserve a grade of an A. My lab report was sufficient in detail while keeping it to the point. In scientific lab reports, it is important to give the important details without sentence padding, and I believe I have done so efficiently. I have presented all the information needed to replicate such an experiment while keeping to the true scientific method form.  In my opinion, I would lose points for not having other visual aids. Although I did have tables and figures, and it is not necessary to have other images, the addition of myself actually doing the experiment and the tools I used would make it easier for outsiders to replicate the experiment and not get confused.

What can you improve on?

CLOs?

What would I do differently?

What sections were difficult?

What aspects were super good?

Assign a grade and explain

Reflection

This assignment helped me convey my thoughts and process of how my father and I built a home from scratch. This assignment correlated to the field of construction and civil engineering, and it also expanded toward banking (Mortgaging a house) as well as plumbing and electrical engineering (installing circuits for lights and electricity). This shows the amount of effort and work it takes for different professions to work in the field together which allows for the growth of knowledge. One thing I would do differently is probably insert more pictures and do less writing. A picture describes a thousand words and if I had a picture for every topic I covered in my lab, I feel like it would get the point across much better. The section that was difficult for me was probably describing on how to place the foundation of the house. Depending on the perimeter and depth of the house, each house varies in terms of soil measurement. It was hard for me to get that point across. The aspect that was super good was as I said, how different professions collided and worked efficiently for one common goal. I think I deserve a 95 on this assignment because it was a difficult report with a lot of topics, but I feel as if I got the main message with a lot of points across on the basic fundamental of constructing.

This assignment was a good assignment where I had some struggles with the procedure because it was hard for me to dumb down certain terminology for the reader to understand as well as explain certain steps to the reader. I would have worded the procedure better in terms of using less terminology so that the reader will better follow what I was writing. The aspect that I was good at was being able to analysis the results of the experiments and be able to write a clear understanding of the results to the reader. I was also proud of myself for being able to organize my lab report so well so that the reader was able to follow through it. With all this in mind I would give myself a 94 because I had a good time working on this assignment with diligence. I was able to organize my lab report well and it was well informing of how the experiment was done and I was able to get good feedback from my classmates that I have included in my lab report such as categorizing the procedure to make it so that it doesn’t look so disorganized and made easier for the reader to follow what was being said. I would also say that I was aware of what the audience was and made sure that I gave enough background information to the reader so that they will be able to follow through with the experiment. I also made a general outline of how I wanted to organize everything in my head as well on paper.

-Tanvir Youhana

My lab reports on how oxygen is affecting global warming and tested the percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere. This is a topic that I am interested in, and I have done similar research before.

The most difficult problem for me is that there is not much that can be done on the topic of global warming, so the report written cannot be particularly perfect. But I’ve done a lot of work on that, trying to include everything I can. 

I will give myself an 80, maybe I did not do very well in the report, but I tested many times and recorded it, and I tried to write down the impact of the change of oxygen, trying to make the report seem meaningful.