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...Science A-36 class, “Observing the Sun and the Stars,” we have to perform six laboratory experiments and do a lab report for each one. In class, someone asked the head TF how much time we were expected to spend on each lab report. “Four to eight hours,” he responded. Here are the lab report guidelines (italics mine...
...Lab reports should generally be about 5 pages of text . . . We assume these will all be written on a computer (i.e. not hand-written). Figures may be hand-drawn, though, and no need or extra credit for fancy computer graphics. Some may find it easier/faster to use computer plots (e.g. use Excel), which we welcome...
Well, guess what? My first lab report was seven pages long, single-spaced, and was accompanied by two illustrations done completely on the computer. Who needs hand-drawn figures when you can include high-resolution vector graphics from Adobe Illustrator outputted in EPS format for inclusion in a PostScript document? Who wants to use ordinary ol’ Microsoft Word and Excel when you can use PSTricks and LaTeX to generate book-quality pages? Who wants to spend four to eight hours cranking out this lab report when you can spend nine to fourteen hours?...
...PostScript-generated graph that is far fancier than anything Excel could make. “Well laid out!” as a general comment at the end of the report, right next to the big fat number telling me that I got full credit on this lab...
...Ranch). And the special effects, which make the camera seem to zoom through blood vessels or the fiery barrel of a gun--render the forensic science more real than any dry technical explanation. The overexposed flashback images look like music videos, the lurid anatomical closeups like art film, the lab scenes like a lush photo shoot: cerulean blue trays, crystal glass, ruby chunks of human tissue laid out like a $300 sushi course...