Lab Report Guide and Final Checklist
For the Week 12 Lab, we will focus on completing all the sections of your lab reports, including your references section. In this document,will attempt to clarify areas that are still giving folks a little bit of trouble or confusion.
Also remember to go back and review the weekly lab documents from Weeks 5-11.
Introduction
As mentioned previously, this section should provide the reader with the following information:
1. Reasons why it is important for one to be able to figure out the identity of an unknown bacterium
2. What you did in this particular “study” and why you did it
3. One statement about what you believe your unknown bacterium to be, based on your collective results
4. One or two statements about the bacterium that you think it is.
5. MAKE SURE THAT YOU USE REFERENCES FOR ANY STATEMENTS MADE THAT ARE NOT YOUR ORIGINAL THOUGHT!