Work in progress - improving writing of laboratory reports

This paper presents methods of improving the writing of laboratory reports by means of informed assessment and formative feedback. This is achieved by informing students of among other aspects, the required structure, content, assessment criteria with corresponding weightings, common errors, software publishing aspects and other auxiliary information relevant to making a quality report such as formatting. Peer evaluation is an effective method of achieving this combined with the use handouts and online resources. The methods presented can be applied to improve other types of reports as well.