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Lab reports: advice & samples

Good sample lab report - with annotations
From BME 307

Good sample lab report (#2)
From BME 307

Weak introduction to a lab report - with explanations
From BME 307

Writing style for lab reports (pdf)
Good and bad examples from BME reports (with explanations)

Criteria for evaluating a preliminary lab report (pdf)
Used in a Tissue Engineering course in a unit on Microbial Kinetics (instructor: G. Birol, 2002); reports were written by groups. This sheet was returned with graded papers as a cover sheet.