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#Introduction These exercises will help you write a sucessful report.

In the Report Writing Guide I run through some exercises that illustrate good writing practises. I explain how to write your report in a letter format, which is often used in scientifc journals. It is slightly different from the usual lab report format.

Then you should run though a Critical analysis of a figure with a friend. This will help you to think about how to display data effectively.

#Exercises

##Part 1. Examples from two published letters We will use these two articles published as letter format as guides for this format: Marguerat 2012 and Miller 2016. I suggest you download these and take a quick look before you watch the video.

The slides for the exercises I describe in the video are here in PDF format and Powerpoint format

Here is the Report Writing Guide video.

##Part 2. Critical analysis of a figure Ideally, run though this excerise with another student.

First, each choose one plot you have made. Then run through the exercises here. Feel free to discuss with demonstrators.

##Sample reports

We also encourage you to look at these three sample reports: yeast example1, yeast example2 and brassica example

The assessment is due after Easter, Thursday 22nd of April 2021 (no later than at 11am).

##Report writing manual and marking scheme

A written guide to writing your report, including word limits and what sections to include is here. This document also contains ideas for analysis that you can do with each data set. It also described the marking scheme, so can see how we allocate the marks.

A description of each dataset is available here

##Final advice

Start early! That way you can think about your data set and discuss it with us a few times before easter.