Analytical Chemistry lab report: Gravimetric Determination of Calcium

Analytical Chemistry lab report: Gravimetric Determination of Calcium: Disscussion and results section

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WRITING A RESULTS AND DISCUSSION SECTION But how?! Basic formula of Results and Discussion construction: [Introductory sentences and other sentences designed to bridge ideas that do not necessarily fit into these categories should be used when deemed necessary] 1. Begin by briefly introducing your first Figure or Table, and what it represents.
2. Point out meaningful trends or features in your data
3. Explain your interpretation of the trends or features, providing accompanying theory or background directly relevant to the interpretation (general background context belongs in the introduction, however). There will likely be several sentences or paragraphs of this.
4. Address key individual features of your data, and present reasons they either support or don’t support your interpretation given in step 3.
5. Offer any alternative interpretations of your data, and any evidence for or against those interpretations 6. Compare your results to interpretations of other experiments found in the literature, and cite them properly

What NOT to do in the Results and Discussion section: – Context for the study and an overview of previous literature belongs in the Introduction. – Details of how data was collected for a Figure belongs in the Methods section. – Speculation about how your results fit into the overall state of the scientific field generally belong in the Conclusion, but key results (such as “First ever” observations) can be briefly highlighted in the Results and Discussion. Chemical Reactions, Equations, Tables, and Figures: Equations, Tables, and Figures must be sequentially numbered within the text. If you show more than one chemical reaction, they are generally numbered as well, but this varies depending on the journal. Tables and Figures MUST be directly referred to by number within the text. This is not a strict rule for equations or reactions, but it is often useful to do so anyway