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===== How to write a lab course report ===== | ===== How to write a lab course report ===== | ||
- | 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. Those largely are similar to the requirements of future scientific writings like thesises | + | 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. Those largely are similar to the requirements of future scientific writings like theses |
**General Notes** | **General Notes** | ||
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A scientific text has two important purposes: | A scientific text has two important purposes: | ||
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- A **discussion** of the results of the analysis with respect to literature values, plausibility, | - 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. | - 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 suplementary informations, additional figures, etc. | + | - An ***appendix** that contains all supplementary information, additional figures, etc. |
+ | 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/ | ||
**More remarks** | **More remarks** | ||
- | * 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 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 repitions | + | * 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 |
- | * When thinking about what to include in your report as information, | + | * 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. | * 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: | * An example for a good, although not perfect, N2 report can be found {{en: | ||
- | **OLD BELOW** | + | **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** | ||
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. | 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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* the report should include the figures from the data reduction, however only one example of each type is needed in the main part of the report, additional figures should be attached as an appendix | * the report should include the figures from the data reduction, however only one example of each type is needed in the main part of the report, additional figures should be attached as an appendix | ||
- | An example for a good, although not perfect, N2 report can be found {{en: | + | An example for a good, although not perfect, N2 report can be found {{en: |