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- | ===== How to write a lab course | + | ===== How to write a lab course |
- | Here we give a few advices | + | Here we give a few advises |
- | A typical | + | **General Notes** |
- | - a theoretical part that explains the background need to understand the topic of the protocol | + | |
+ | A scientific text has two important purposes: | ||
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+ | **Report structure and content** | ||
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+ | A typical report should consist of the following sections: | ||
+ | - A short **introduction**, | ||
+ | - A **theoretical part** that explains the knowledge needed to understand the topic of the report, the processing of the data, and the conclusions drawn in the end. | ||
+ | - A general description of the **observations**, | ||
+ | - The presentation and description of the **results**. This includes the processed data and measured values. | ||
+ | - An **analysis** of the results which include calculations, | ||
+ | - A **discussion** of the results of the analysis with respect to literature values, plausibility, | ||
+ | - A list of **references** used throughout the report. This includes values for literature comparisons but also adopted literature values for the results and analysis part. The same goes for figures that you use from books or webpages. | ||
+ | - An ***appendix** that contains all supplementary information, | ||
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+ | This is just a general structure, valid for most writings. Given the content of the report, individual points can be merged or even omitted. Also the order may change in specific cases when the content demands/ | ||
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+ | **More remarks** | ||
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+ | * It can be exhausting writing on a lengthy text over time. One gets blind for their own mistakes over time, things that made sense in your head may not when they are on paper. Leverage that you write this as a group, proof read each others contributions. Also, put the text to rest for one or two days and reread it to identify problems with the structure or wording, and find repetitions or gaps to be filled in the text. | ||
+ | * When thinking about what to include in your report as information, | ||
+ | * Use your own words to describe things. Please be aware that the supervisors (which will evaluate your report) already read dozens of other reports. Hence, they will immediately recognize whether you have copied text from e.g. the Internet, which is considered to be a plagiarism and which will result in an immediate disqualification. | ||
+ | * An example for a good, although not perfect, N2 report can be found {{en: | ||
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+ | **Report template** | ||
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+ | We have created a report template for you to use. It is written in Latex and you should be able to compile it with a typicla Latex installation. A {{en: | ||
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+ | ^ File name ^ Purpose | ||
+ | | lab_report_empty.tex | ||
+ | | bibliography.bib | ||
+ | | aa.bst | ||
+ | | lab_report.tex | ||
+ | | bibdefinitions.tex | ||
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+ | All other files are created by the compilation. lab_report.pdf is the compiled report. | ||
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+ | Based on this template, we wrote a {{en: | ||
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+ | /* **OLD BELOW** | ||
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+ | Here we give a few advises regarding the writing of a report within the scope of the astrophysical lab course. We aim to give an overview over what should be included in those reports and which guidelines need to be followed. | ||
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+ | A typical | ||
+ | - a theoretical part that explains the background need to understand the topic of the report | ||
- a general description of the observation, | - a general description of the observation, | ||
- the presentation of the results | - the presentation of the results | ||
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Some general remarks: | Some general remarks: | ||
* **first of all:** use your **own** words | * **first of all:** use your **own** words | ||
- | * Please be aware that the supervisors (which will evaluate your protocol) already read dozens of other protocols. Hence, they will immediately recognize whether you have copied text from e.g. the Internet, which is considered to be a plagiarism and which will result in an immediate disqualification. | + | * Please be aware that the supervisors (which will evaluate your report) already read dozens of other reports. Hence, they will immediately recognize whether you have copied text from e.g. the Internet, which is considered to be a plagiarism and which will result in an immediate disqualification. |
* state the origin of each figure that is not made by yourself | * state the origin of each figure that is not made by yourself | ||
- | * the protocol | + | * the report |
- | An example for a good, although not perfect, N2 protocol | + | An example for a good, although not perfect, N2 report |