Laboratory notebooks

For a class that includes laboratory exercises, you will need to carefully record your laboratory experiments in a notebook. A laboratory notebook should be detailed and accurate so that anyone who wishes to repeat your experiment can do so. The laboratory notebook also provides crucial material for any report or article you may write later about your experiment. Researchers take notebooks seriously, never removing a page or erasing entries. That practice keeps them from misrepresenting results.

Your notebook will typically have the following components:

Related topics:

Research papers and laboratory reports

Literature reviews

Research proposals

Poster presentations