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Format For Me318 Laboratory Reports

The document provides formatting guidelines for a laboratory report, including required sections, page limits, font specifications, and content requirements for each section. Key sections include a cover page, list of contents, list of figures, list of tables, title, abstract (max. 200 words), introduction, theory, experimental, results & discussions, conclusions, and references (min. 6, half from books/journals). Figures and tables must be referenced in text. Direct copying from sources is considered cheating and will receive a grade of zero.

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Format For Me318 Laboratory Reports

The document provides formatting guidelines for a laboratory report, including required sections, page limits, font specifications, and content requirements for each section. Key sections include a cover page, list of contents, list of figures, list of tables, title, abstract (max. 200 words), introduction, theory, experimental, results & discussions, conclusions, and references (min. 6, half from books/journals). Figures and tables must be referenced in text. Direct copying from sources is considered cheating and will receive a grade of zero.

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FORMAT FOR ME318 LABORATORY REPORTS

A laboratory report must contain the below stated sections in a total of five (5) pages maximum,
plus the cover, List of Contents, List of Figures, and List of Tables pages. Each page, except the
cover page, must be numbered such that the page number “2” appears on the page right after the
cover page. Times New Roman with the font size of 10-12 must be used throughout the text
with 1 or 1.5 line spacing.

Cover Page: A standard cover page to be used by all students can be found at
http://www.mslab.boun.edu.tr/docs/cover_page318.doc.

List of Contents (Index): All the sections must be indicated in order of appearance in the report
along with the page numbers.

List of Figures: All the figures in the report must be numbered and the numbers and captions of
the figures must be listed in here along with the page numbers.

List of Tables: All the tables in the report must be numbered and the numbers and captions of
the tables must be listed in here along with the page numbers.
Each table and figure must have a number and a caption. Figure captions should be located below
figures, whereas table captions should be placed above tables. All figures, drawings, and tables
given in the report must be related to the subject revealed in the text and reference number must
be given for each figure or table taken from a source.

Title: The title should be in the format “Laboratory Report #X: Y”, where X and Y indicate the
number and name of the particular experiment, respectively.

Abstract: A brief abstract of no more than 200 words must state why that particular test or
experiment is conducted, what the purpose is, and what the highlights of the experimental
findings and discussions of that test or experiment are. The abstract is written in a formal manner
using passive tense. And most importantly, there are no references and citations in the abstract.

Introduction: Historical and background information is stated in this section without giving
detailed technical information.

Theory: The theoretical background, all the related formulas, derivations, equations based on a
detailed literature survey is placed into this section.
Experimental: All the information related to the experiment, including the experimental set-up,
procedure, tools, machines, and materials used, as well as specific notes related to that test or
experiment if there are any, is given in here.

Results & Discussions: All the data obtained throughout the test or experiment conducted in the
laboratory section is listed and tabulated in an organized manner. Following this, necessary
calculations, conversions, extrapolations, interpolations, drawings, curve fittings etc. are listed in
here in a logical manner. The obtained and derived results are discussed and compared to the
information given in the Introduction and Theory sections.

Conclusions: This section is a brief and condensed summary of the information given in the
whole report, especially indicating what you aimed and what you obtained by conducting this test
or experiment. Conclusions are drawn from what is done and suggestions are made regarding
how to improve the results and what should be done as a future research on this subject.

References: The references list all the publications used for the laboratory report. A reference
may definitely not be listed if it is not used in the text. In the list, references are indicated
numerically. They must be given in the text in the same order as they are listed in References
section. Books, journals, and web sites can be used as a reference. A minimum of 6 references
will be cited, a half of which must be of book or journal articles, including the laboratory
handouts. When a web article is referred to, author name & affiliation must be provided as for the
books or journal articles, along with the date at which the particular web site is viewed. Do not
directly copy information from a source even if you refer to the source. Rephrase it and
make it your own. Taking information from a source without indicating its reference is
called “cheating” by all means, and such attempts will be graded as zero (“0”) in that
laboratory report.

Example references:
1. Ekmekci O.F., “Research Writing”, pp. 62-196, Cukurova Uni., Adana, 1991.
2. Glenn H. Brown, J. W. Doane, and Vernon D. Neff, “A Review Of The Structure And Physical
Properties Of
Liquid Crystals”, p. 65, CRC Press, Cleveland, Ohio, 1971.
3. Stefan Agamanolis, “Liquid Crystal”, http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefan/liquid-
crystals/node2.html.
4. Liquid Crystal Group, Department of Physics, University of Colorado, “Introduction to Liquid
Crystals”,
http://bly.colorado.edu/lcphysics/lcintro/, viewed on 2/17/2006.

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