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Tips on writing

These apply to the lab report for this exercise, but will help you improve your scientific writing more generally. There are tips about both content and writing style.

1. Content of the lab report

These tips are provided as a set of slides. They concentrate on content. There is no video for this topic. Warning: The actual format of the report has changed since these slides were made.  However, they still give some good general advice on writing.

2. Scientific Writing – Style and presentation

There are slides for this video.

3. Scientific Writing – Saying more, in less space, and with fewer words

There are slides for this video.

4. Scientific Writing – figures, graphs, tables, diagrams, …

There are slides for this video.

5. Avoiding ambiguity

These tips are provided as a set of notes. They concentrate on the word “this”. There is no video for this topic.

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