Improving the Report-Writing Skills of Undergraduates

Some Sample Laboratory Reports

These sample reports were produced to help Macquarie University's students taking PHYS149 develop their lab report writing skills. Here are examples of three reports you can download and examine:-

Example of a "good" report (PDF file)
Example of an "average" report (PDF file)
Example of a "poor" report (PDF file)

Please compare them and then see how you can improve your own reporting skills.

Guidelines for Report-Writing in Senior Undergraduate Course Units

For the more-extensive report-writing work accompanying our 200- and 300-level units these are our guidelines - PDF or Word.