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The following format and guiding questions for your report can be found below. Follow the Grammar Guidelines for Reports page.
Abstract
Briefly summarize your previous work, goals and objectives, what you have accomplished, and future work. (100 words max)
Background
The background section provides a means of summarizing your previous reflection. Before writing your reflection, your team members should refer to the previous reflection with graded comments from the Research Leader and Monroe.
In the background section, provide enough detail so that you only refer to figures in past reflections, but do not provide excruciating detail as it has hopefully already been documented. For Spring 2010, think about where you were four weeks ago (if you can remember) and use this section to summarize what you were doing and thinking about thenand include any figures or equations needed for the document to be stand-alone. The following are guiding questions to assist you in writing this section:
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In the results section, present a summary of your results in a professional way and then analyze these results. When analyzing results, think about how the results support or do not support your original hypotheses and motivation to run the experiment. Remember to also include somewhere a copy of your datalog and data analysis files. The following are guiding questions to assist you in writing this section:
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The team reflection section is very important in assessing not only your efficiency and productivity, but how well you are learning. :
- Are there concepts or ideas that your team needs help with?
- Did your team accomplish what you set out to do?
- If not, what reasons can you give? Was it team dynamics, equipment failures, communication between the TA or professor, a lack of understanding in some concept (theoretical or otherwise) or the laboratory, or is it something else? Be very specific here so we can help your team as much as possible.