General Lab Instructions - Biology 244

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Please observe the following:

  1. Each student should e-mail himself or herself a copy of the data taken during each lab period before leaving the lab for the day. Both LoggerPro and BioPac software allow you to import raw data into Excel files and cut and paste graphic data into Microsoft Word. You can use these features to make documents which you can then e-mail to yourself using Willamette Webmail. There is a link to Webmail on the laboratory web page for the course.

  2. Unless otherwise instructed, lab reports are due one week after the data were taken. You may turn in lab reports to either instructor. A penalty of 10% will be deducted for each day a lab report is late.

  3. If you have questions about a particular laboratory, please ask the instructor for that laboratory.

  4. While students will work in groups and will prepare a group research proposal, each individual student must prepare his/her own lab reports and final research paper for the course. Duplicate wording in lab reports and/or research papers of lab group members is considered plaigiarism. At a minimum, the grade received on a paper will be divided equally among students engaged in such practice. Depending on circumstances, plaigiarism may result in a penalty as severe as a grade of zero for the lab report, research paper, or the entire laboratory grade.