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Rough Draft of the Final Lab Report
Carefully review the Grading Rubric that will be used to evaluate your assignment before you begin.
You are required to develop a rough draft for your Final Lab Report, which covers all three
experiments for "Lab 2: Water Quality and Contamination." To begin, carefully review the instructions
for your Final Lab Report assignment located within Week Five. Next, download the Rough Draft of the
Final Lab Report Template and utilize this form to ensure proper formatting and inclusion of all required
material. Using the template will ensure proper formatting. You must use at least four scholarly sources
and your lab manual to support your points. The rough draftmust be three to five pages in length
(excluding title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style. For information regarding
APA samples and tutorials, visit the Ashford Writing Center, located within the Learning Resources tab
on the left navigation toolbar.
The Rough Draft of the Final Lab Report must contain the following seven sections in this order:
a. Title Page - This page must include the title of your report, your name, course name, instructor,
and date submitted.
b. Introduction - This section should discuss why the experiment was conducted. At a minimum, it
should contain three paragraphs. One paragraph must cover background information of similar
studies that have already been done in the area. This is accomplished by citing existing literature
from similar experiments and explaining their results. A second paragraph should provide an
objective or a reason why the experiment is being done. Why do we want to know the answer to
the question we are asking? A third paragraph should provide a hypothesis for each of the three
experiments conducted.
c. Materials and Methods - This section should provide a detailed description of the materials used
in your experiment and how they were used. A stepbystep
rundown of your experiment is
necessary; however, it should be done in paragraph form, not in a list format. The description
should be exact enough to allow for someone reading the report to replicate the experiment, but it
should be in your own words and not simply copied and pasted from the lab manual.
d. Results - This section should include the data and observations from the experiment. All tables
and graphs should be present in this section. Additionally, there should be at least one paragraph
explaining the data in paragraph form. There should be nopersonal opinions or discussion beyond
the results of your experiments located within this section.
e. Discussion - This section should interpret or explain the meaning of your data and provide
conclusions. At least three paragraphs should be outlined here. First, a paragraph should be
present that addresses whether the hypotheses were confirmed or denied and how you know
this. Second, you are to discuss the meaning of your findings in this area utilizing scholarly
sources to put the paper into context. For example, how do your results compare with the
findings of similar studies? Also, you should discuss any future questions arising from your
results and how you might test them. Finally, you should discuss if there are any outside factors
(i.e., temperature, contaminants, time of day) that affected your results. If so, how could you
control for these in the future?
f. Conclusions - This section should provide a brief summary of your work.
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g. References - Provide a list of at least four scholarly sources and your lab manual that will be
used in the Final Lab Report. Format your references according to APA style as outlined in the
Ashford Writing Center.
Note: An abstract must be included in the Final Lab Report. However, the abstract should not be
included in the rough draft as it is to be written last after the entire paper is fully written. Do not forget
this in your Final Lab Report.