SE 5 Formal Lab Report Guidelines for 21/02/2018

Titration Lab

How to write a Formal Lab

Report
Titration Lab

▪ Typed report (no handwritten

reports accepted)

▪ Graphs usually hand drawn (neatly,

The report set –
up follow how to make a graph handout)
Titration Lab
▪ Require cover page, in-text
citation and bibliography(APA
style)

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1. Title page
2. Purpose
3. Background information
4. Hypothesis
Parts of a 5. Materials
Formal Lab (in 6. Procedure
order) 7. Observations
8. Analysis
9. Conclusion
10. Bibliography

#1: Title Page

Class name and class

Title of experiment
code

Teacher giving report

Your name
to

School and due date of

report

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▪ A few sentences (1 to 3 max) describing

the purpose of the experiment

Ex: The purpose of this experiment is to determine

the resistance of an unknown resistor.

#2: Purpose

▪ Describes the scientific concepts which this

experiment will touch on

▪ In this experiment, your background information

section must include:
1. Description of acids and bases (one paragraph)
2. Explanation of acid base neutralization (one
#3: Background paragraph)
3. Explanation of chemical indicators (one
information paragraph)
4. Information about phenolphthalein and it’s pH
turning point (one paragraph)
▪ In-text citation for all concepts explained in your
background section is required! You will fail this
section if no citations are written.

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▪ In-text citation for all concepts

explained in your background section
is required! You will fail this section if
no citations are written.
▪ Your textbook must be one of the sources
#3: Background ▪ A reputable internet site (BBC Bitesize)
information (LibreTexts) (CK-12) can also be cited

▪ Prediction of the expected results of the

experiment
▪ Must have scientific justification to
support your prediction
Usually a detailed
paragraph

#4 Hypothesis Ex: Due to ohm’s law, which states that the resistance
is equal to the quotient of voltage over potential
difference, the resistance of the unknown resistor
will be the slope of the linear function formed
between voltage and potential difference.
Direction relation to
your purpose.

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Look at the balanced chemical equation

for the neutralization of the acid and the
base

#4 Hypothesis Predict, based on the molar ratio, the

for this relative number of moles required to
neutralize HCl with NaOH
experiment

▪ List of materials used for the experiment

(copy from the lab handout)
▪ After list of materials, include the diagram
of the titration set up (either hand drawn
with annotations, or a picture of the set
up is taken, with annotations)
#5 Materials

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▪ Step by step of what you did to carry out

the experiment
▪ Concise steps, no paragraphs
▪ Copy from the lab document given to you

#6 Procedure

▪ Here includes all of your data you

collected
▪ Data usually written in tables, with table
titles and all appropriate units
▪ For titration lab, you must copy the table
#7 Observations that is on the lab document handout

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Your analysis will include:

▪ Answering analysis questions (See
attached word document)
▪ All stoich calculations can be hand
written

#8 Analysis

▪ Short paragraph answering the objective

of the lab, and agree/disagreeing with the
hypothesis

▪ Sources of error for the lab also need to

#9 Conclusion be included

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▪ Any material that you reference for your lab

needs to be included in the bibliography

▪ Go to http://www.bibme.org/ to help with

your bibliography
#10
Bibliography ▪ See the document on the class website with
respect to APA citations

Style: APA

For details in citing class notes, read

http://libraryguides.vu.edu.au/apa-referencing/lecture-
notes

All class notes will have this basic format

Class notes Di Lallo,A. (2017) Topic, [PowerPoint Slide/ Class

citation handout]. Retrieved from
http://msdilalloscience.weebly.com

**if you have issues with your bibliography, ask me!**

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