Maddie Leopold

9/19/16
Lab 2: Osmotic sensitivity in marine and estuarine invertebrates
The write-up for this lab is a short report. We will provide you with data collected from the
whole class. You will be responsible for writing up the results using the entire class data set. We
will check your data plots the following lab period, and you will have another week make any
final changes to the short report. It should contain four brief sections:
1.

A brief introduction (roughly 1 maybe 2 paragraphs) that lists your predictions (models)
and why you made your prediction. Be sure to work in answers to the bold-italicized
questions above as part of this introductory section. Briefly summarize how the experiment
was performed (do not include a detailed step-by-step procedure here).

Introduction:
2.

A results section that addresses your predictions. How you present the data will be up to
you. Some suggestions for making your plots are provided below. You have choices in how
you want to display your data, but make sure your graphs are labeled with clear, large legible
fonts (just like you learned from the first lab assignment).

Results:
3.

A brief discussion of whether the results support your predictions and an explanation of
why or why not. Is there any literature on the osmoregulatory abilities of these or closely
related species? Are your data similar? If not, was there something different in the
experimental design? We will provide some primary research articles for you to look at on
Canvas, but feel free to conduct your own searches to find other references. Use CSE format
(style guide provided on Moodle) to format your in-text and end-reference citations.

Discussion:
4.

A reference section that lists full end-reference information in CSE author-year style.
Please follow the handouts available on Canvas to format your citations.

References: