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.