Sample student writing: Laboratory report and review of the literature
Conducting an experiment gives you practice in collecting and interpreting data. Writing a laboratory report allows you to describe an experiment and its results. This laboratory report was written for a botany course. The writers used the citation-sequence system of the Council of Science Editors (CSE) for formatting their paper and citing and listing sources.
A literature review assignment is an opportunity to learn about one topic in a particular field and to describe and analyze the questions other researchers have studied and to suggest new directions for research. This review of the literature was written for a biology course. The writer used the citation-sequence system of the Council of Science Editors (CSE) for formatting the paper and citing and listing sources.