If I were able to have the option to do this writing assignment again, I would probably choose a different topic or experiment. I say this because I feel like my experiment in particular had steps that were repetitive therefore when written out, it seems to repeat itself as well. I would probably choose a topic that had more variety in the procedure so that the lab report itself wouldn’t be repetitive and somewhat confusing.

For me, the hardest part overall was keeping the overall formality of the lab report understandable. By that I mean I struggled to know when and when not to explain something in depth. I understood that the audience of the lab report would not have a in-depth understanding of Chemistry, my topic of choice, but I wasnt sure at what point I needed to be more specific about how to do something. For example, one of the steps in my procedure is to determine the Molarity of one of the reactants, but I wasn’t sure if I needed to include the formula to do so in this case because it’s also something that one can look up on the internet if needed. In my opinion, I think I did well in the introduction. I believe that I explained the purpose of this experiment and I explained why I did certain things. I explained the purpose of extra reactants, such as the sulfuric acid and boiling chips, and the purpose of using a hot water bath. The explanation of the reason the experiment had to be tried multiple times, all with varying amounts of each reactant, to find the limiting reagent, was one that I’m proud of. It puts it in simple terms of explaining why its important to understand why certain parts of the experiments are conducted

FINAL GRADE: 90

What can I improve on?
I believe my lab report was very strong. If I could improve on anything it would be my detail and the pathos in my abstract. The grammar details in the report are an area that I should key in on in the future. Also, during my abstract I struggled a bit giving the reader a reason to explore the data/results further. Lastly, I could have added several more sources to help make the report more reader friendly and upbeat.

What would I do differently?
Honestly, I wouldn’t do much differently. I am not a perfect writer and can improve in many areas in that regard. I put a ton of work into the results, calculations and graphs and I believe it showed on the outcome.

What sections were difficult and why?
The most difficult section for me was the abstract. Mainly because I care about the topic of the lab report, gravity, but could understand why many wouldn’t. I found it difficult to call the reader to the cause past the obvious fact that gravity affects us all daily.

What aspects of the lab report were a home run? I believe my intro, results, calculations and conclusion were strong. I explained the experiment in depth also with the procedures so any reader could get the idea of what was going on in the experiment.

What grade should I receive? I would be very happy receiving a 95 on the first project. I worked several hours on the experiment followed by several hours on the lab report itself. There are certainly areas to improve but overall it was a quality report.

My lab report explored the graphics performance differences between macOS and Windows, with benchmarking from games and tools across both platforms. The most difficult sections for me is abstract, it’s because It was difficult to put everything on the lab report to 1-2 paragraphs. I did really well on data by creating tables to record the results from difference MacBook. I would give myself a 95, from borrowing the laptops, installing operating systems, installing benchmarking tools and games, calculating the frame rate from each result, to writing about the whole test and putting a result in the lab report, I put lots of work on this lab report. I can definitely improve my lab report by using multiple methods, I would use more than 3 benchmarking tools, rather than just using two. and give myself more time on the lab report, because I had to borrow laptops from others and installing boot camps on the laptops, so the time management was very important.

This lab report focused on the relationship between the density and surface tension of liquids. Although I used an old lab report from high school I was able to add a lot of new information that I never knew before and I learned a lot of new things. In my high school lab report, I only had a few sections. I didn’t need a theoretical background, analysis or abstract and so I didn’t know what they were. This was because in high school I was writing the lab report for only my teacher to read. In this lab report, however, I added an abstract, analysis and theoretical background. This time, I was writing this lab report for anyone to read and so it is important they understand the experiment. I decided to add a theoretical background because I felt that explaining the theory of surface tension would be too much in an introduction.

I believe I could have improved some parts in my lab report. One part I believe I could have done better was in the procedure. Although I understand the procedure it is clear to me, I am not sure if others would understand. I felt like my procedure was not clear enough. In terms of what I could have done to make the experiment better, I could have used a better balance beam or container. Writing the lab report was difficult because it was hard thinking about new things that I could include in the report. Since I used an old lap report from high school, all my ideas were already in my lab report. At first, my high school lab report had 700 words. After a lot of research and brainstorming, I managed to write an additional 900 words. Another difficult part of the lab report was explaining the theoretical background in a way that anyone could understand it. I feel like I did a good job on this because I defined a lot of scientific terms and used simple words.

For this lab report, I would give myself a 90 because I completed all the sections of a lab report. I feel like someone with no knowledge of surface tension could understand what it is by reading my lab report. I also had to do a lot of research because my high school lab report only covered the experiment and was uncompleted. Since this lab report was already half done, I feel like a 90 is a good grade based on the amount of work I had to put in.

For this lab report, I learned many different things.  First of all, I learned how to gather information and cite them in the form of APA.  Before doing this project, I have no idea how we are suppose to cite the source, all I know was MLA. After I finished this project, I learned that MLA is mainly used for humanities, and APA is what we supposed to use as engineers. In additionally, for this project I looked through a lot of websites. I wanted to make sure that the information that I used on my lab is same or similar to most of the websites, so in this way I know I use a trustworthy source.  Also, I learned how to format a lab report by reading Lab Report guidelines- University of Sheffield. It is actually a lot different than what I learned in my high school. My high school taught me that lab report should be separated into 6 categories- introduction, hypothesis, materials , procedure, data and conclusion, the rest is not important. But in this lab report, I learned that a lab report should have a cover page, abstract, introduction, materials, procedure, results, discussion and a conclusion.  And every parts of it plays a different role and every parts of the lab report is equally important.

Over the course of this lab, I feel like one thing I did well was explaining.  I spend a lot of time on explaining my results and I explained why the results that I got is reasonable with sources online.  Also, I think my steps on how to perform the lab is very clear. I performed the steps by myself to incase that everything makes sense. However, one thing I should do differently in the future is that I should separate the beans into 3 groups instead of 2.  For this lab report, I only have 2 groups, one for water and one for coke. In the future, I should have another group which is mix of water and coke because in this lab report, I only prove that coke itself will not speed up the germination process, however, what if the coke is with water? What if I add water to the coke and reduce the concentration of sugar inside it? This is one thing I didn’t take into consideration when I was doing the report. Therefore, if I can do this report again, I would include this result.

One thing that I need to improve on will be my abstract because I thought we can’t include any results at the beginning of the lab, but the guidelines tell me to do so. Even though I did what the guidelines ask for, I still feel very uncomfortable about it.

For this lab report, I will give myself a 96 because I feel like I did everything that I possible can do for this project. I spend time researching online. I spend time go over the steps. I spend time go over the key components of a lab report. Even though my topic is really easy, I try my best to make people learn something, such as sugar inside the coke will prevent plants from absorbing nutrients and water, and if coke doesn’t have sugar like diet coke, you can use it for the plant and it will speed them up.