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Choose a lab notebook similar to those used in the biology
and chemistry sections of INS, or one made from recycled or tree-free paper.
Put your full name on the outside of your lab notebook.
Lab Entries
Lab entries should start with: Lab #, Week #, date. List your lab partners
as well.
Lab entries should be as neat as possible.
Entries for each lab should be complete and understandable to:
(1) someone who was not there,
(2) your lab instructor, and
(3) you at a future date.
You may organize your lab write-up as you see fit, or according to the
techniques you learned in fall quarter in INS.
You may paste or tape portions of the lab handout into your lab notebook
at your discretion.
Excel graphs will often be part of your lab, and you may paste or tape
these into your lab notebook.
Each lab write-up should have a Conclusions section to include:
(1) a summary of what you learned, and
(2) any questions that the lab brought to light.
Other Insights
(From: Writing in the Arts and Sciences. 1981.
E.P. Maimon et al. Little, Brown and Company, Boston.)
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Purposes of the lab notebook:
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accurate account of the experiment
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memory aid
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basis for scientific paper
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comparison to the work of others
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legal document
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Typical parts of a lab write-up: title, purpose, materials,
procedure, results, conclusions.
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Create tables beforehand for recording data
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