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Chemistry Lab Resources In scientific study, a lab notebook is important to have and use for the purposes of copyrights. Some common tips that can be used using a lab notebook include: record what you have done, not what your lab physically says, record all observations and explanations of why they happened, and etc. Now that you simply have completed an experiment and have collected all of the required data in your laboratory notebook and any supplementary information from analytical instruments, you would now need to write up your results in a lab report. The purpose of writing reports you have performed is to communicate precisely what occurred in an experiment or observation and to obviously discuss the results. In writing a lab report you should write it in passive voice. Writing in passive voice, the subject of the sentence also receives the action. Some other important tips are: to write in third person, use the correct verb tense and use tables and figure to show a more efficient way to convey information than verbal description. Once again in every type of paper/report or any type of writing plagiarism should be avoided. The seven main parts that you will need to complete a successful lap report will contain: an abstract, an introduction, experimental materials and methods, results, a discussion, a conclusion and references. The abstract is usually one to two paragraphs, but very detailed. The abstract should contain the central question, followed by brief methods, results and discussions. The introduction tells the reader exactly why you did the experiment, which also includes background info that indicates why the topic is of interest to you. In the experimental section, all experimental procedures should be described in detail. The results section ought to present information that you simply collected from your experiment and summarize the info with text, tables, and/or figures. The discussion section ought to confirm to the reader the