Format Lab
Report
Outline
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Title
Objective
Introduction
Procedure
Results
Discussions
Conclusion
Question
Reference
OBJECTIVE
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It should state main objective of the
experiment.
INTRODUCTION
 Some of the background for this experiment
needs to be state.
 Do not repeat or copy introduction from lab
module
PROCEDURE
 This part should describes every step done
during experimentation with passive form
and have to simplified the step (ex: in flow
chart) from the procedure given to you.
RESULTS
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This part deals with the management of
data obtained after experiment. Data can
be presented as a series of figures, tables,
etc with descriptive text and numbered but
no discussion.
DISCUSSIONS
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This section must emphasize on discussing the outcome of the
experiment. It can be written in two ways:
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Compare the expected outcome of the experiment with theory or
Make an appropriate graph on which the theory is represented and
experimental data by points.
A critical part of discussion is error analysis. In comparison of
theory and experiment you may not get a perfect agreement. It
does not necessarily mean that your experiment was failed. The
results will be accepted, provided that you can account for
discrepancy. Precision and accuracy of the instrument or your
ability to read the scales may be one limitation. A part from this,
data analysis requires you to open your mind and critical approach
to your work and that routine methods may not be sufficient.
CONCLUSION
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The conclusions should contain several
shorts statements closing the report. They
should inform the reader if the experiments
agreed with the theory. If there were
differences between measured and
expected results, explain possible reasons
for these differences. You may also say
what could have been done differently, how
experiments may be improved, or make
other comment on the laboratory report.
REFERENCE
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When citing references to literature, the
author should use the author-year format
(Baizura, 2003; Lim et al., 2002). List all
references cited at the end of the paper.
Start each reference on a new line. A
spacing of one line is required between
references (Sami and Mokhtar, 1999).
 Websites sources should also be referenced
if appropriate (Online Library, 2002). A
website reference should include the full
address of the website, and the date the
website was accessed, as well as the date
the website was originally published, or last
revised. If the date of publication or revision
is not available, use the notation n.d. to
indicate this unavailability (George and
William, n.d.).
 References should be arranged in
alphabetical orders.
 Students are encouraged to refer to books,
journals and conference papers
 PLEASE MINIMIZE INTERNET
REFERENCES