Overview
Complete a lab report using the rubric as well as my data and avoid plagiarism
Being able to write down what you do so that other people could reproduce what you did, and understand what you learned in an experiment, is one of the most important things that a scientist does. If you do meaningful science and don’t tell anybody about it then not much useful was done.
In this class you do this by writing lab reports. To help you write a good lab report we have several example reports for you to look at and we will also provide grading rubrics.
You will not write lab reports with your lab partner, you will write you own. It is critical that you write your own reports, as above, this is one of the most important things a scientist does. You are not allowed to copy text from any other lab report, from any other student, from any lab report you find on any website or on any other source, that would be plagiarism. You are not even allowed to copy from your own lab reports, that would be self-plagiarism.
The lab reports you submit are automatically and electronically checked for similarity to other submitted reports, and similarity to all reports submitted in previous classes in previous years and reports from other sources. If your report, or any part of it, is flagged as being similar to another report then it is manually checked for copying/plagiarism.
If any part of your report is determined to be plagiarized your will receive zero points for the report and you will be reported to the Dean for academic dishonesty.
Unfortunately, we have found examples of plagiarized lab reports in the past.