Response to Genre Feedback

Responses to various comments given on genre writing assignment

Comment 1: It is a good question to raise this issue when thinking about the audience. For professional scientist their reports will be read by other professionals in their field who will likely already know enough about the question trying to be answered or the experiment being conducted to not need a deep discussion of what is being done. Few people just pick up a lab report to see what conclusion was recorded by scientist concerning the affect of magnetism on electric current in computer circuitry. Throughout school lab reports are read and graded by people that are familiar with lab reports and therefore are also familiar with the assignment. For the expected audience of a lab report a lengthy review of the purpose.

Comment 2: Wasn’t sure if you could completely evaluate if my report for accuracy since you are an English teacher, but though you could still conclude if the writing was clear enough to go with the information being presented. Enjoyed writing something that I believe will actually benefit me in the future opposed to the rest of the writing we have done in class.

Comment 3: Used an experiment conducted in the Chemistry 1036 lab course. Received data from my roommate and discussed what they were to do. Looked through the lab manual and examples to determine how to set up report

Comment 4: The area of “discussion of experimental Uncertainty” is set in place for the experimenter to into a discussion of where he or she might have had error in the experiment and how it could have affected the results; whether there was random uncertainty or systematic uncertainty and if it would have produced results that might be to large or too small. If the experimenter is performing an experiment to reconfirmed a know result this section would include the percent error calculated from the experiment compared to the accepted value and where the experimenter might have gone wrong to get this difference.