BIOL 130L Research Guide: Writing and Citing

Academic scholarship involves properly acknowledging sources. It shows readers where your ideas came from, and gives them the details to find the source themselves. From the Office of Academic Integrity.

This guide will help you to plan and write different kinds of lab reports during your post-secondary education. Includes templates and examples.

Work through each section of your lab report, and create a timeline.

Tips for how to properly structure a University-level lab report, and common errors to avoid

This guide shows you how to construct an effective research question

The Waterloo Ready to Write is designed to support first-year students in their online courses with writing assignments and other communication tasks.

MIT open courseware. This course provides an introduction to writing about science (including medicine, technology, and engineering) for general readers. With a strong emphasis in background research, this course will help students build a foundation for strong science writing. Students will read works by accomplished science writers.

MIT Opencourseware. This course focuses on traditional nature writing and the environmentalist essay. Students will keep a Web log as a journal. Writings are drawn from the tradition of nature writing and from contemporary forms of the environmentalist essay.