Summarizing the lab report
Summarize each major section of the lab report--Introduction, Methods,
Results, Discussion, and Conclusion--in 1 sentence each (two if a section
is complex). Then string the summaries together in a block paragraph in
the order the sections come in the final report.
More Help:You can think of the Abstract as a miniature version of the whole lab report. Read each section of the report and boil it down to a sentence. This means that you need to determine the most important information in each section.
- Here are some suggestions
for what to include in each sentence of the Abstract:
- Introduction: research problem of the lab; hypothesis
- Methods: a quick description of the procedure
- Results: statement of the overall findings
- Discussion: judgment about hypothesis; solution for problem
- Conclusion: what you learned from doing the lab
- Put all these sentences together into one paragraph with the heading "Abstract."


