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Table of Contents
1.
ABSTRACT.............................................................................................................................2
2.
INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................................2
3.
THEORETICAL BACKGROUND.........................................................................................2
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6.
CONCLUSIONS......................................................................................................................4
7.
REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................5
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APPENDIX a - DATA..............................................................................................................6
9.
APPENDIX b CALCULATIONS.........................................................................................7
1. ABSTRACT
The abstract is a condensed version of the entire paper. It allows a reader to quickly understand
the purpose, methods, results and significance of your research without reading the entire paper.
Abstracts or papers published in scholarly journals are useful when conducting library research,
because the researcher can quickly determine whether the research report will be relevant to the
topic. The material in the abstract is written in the same order as that within the paper, and has
the same emphasis. An effective abstract should include a sentence or two summarizing the
highlights from each of the sections: introduction (including purpose), methods, results, and
discussion. To reflect the content of the paper accurately, the abstract should be written after the
final draft of your paper is complete, although it is placed at the beginning of the paper.
2. INTRODUCTION
WHY DID YOU STUDY THIS PROBLEM?
The introduction should identify the problem or issue and give background information
(historical and/or theoretical) about that problem. The introduction contains a brief literature
review which should describe previous research conducted on the problem, and explain how the
current experiment will help to clarify or expand the knowledge. This information should justify
why you conducted the experiment. All references to previous studies should be properly
documented. The introduction should end with a purpose statement, sometimes in the form of a
hypothesis or null hypothesis. The purpose statement is a single sentence which specifically
states the answer to the question that the experiment was designed to answer; e.g., the purpose of
this investigation was to determine the effects of environmentally realistic exposures of acid
precipitation on productivity of field-grown and chamber-grown peanuts.
3. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
What are the concepts being investigated?
Brief discussion of the equations being applied and any important relationships that you feel are
relevant to the calculations.
information from Results. If the lab manual includes questions to be answered in the Discussion,
integrate the responses into a logical discussion, rather than answering them one by one. In
addition, do not include only the answers to the questions use them as a guideline for
supplementing your discussion, not limiting it.
6. CONCLUSIONS
7. REFERENCES
For help with proper referencing formats for various sources, you can visit the below link:
<http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2/>
8. APPENDIX a - DATA
9. APPENDIX b CALCULATIONS