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Question 15 (2013):

Submission reference: IN2767

For our lab report, should lots of examples be used?

Answer 15:

Not possible to give a simple answer to that I'm afraid. It may make sense to use examples, but I think there's a real risk that these invite verbatim descriptions of what was done in the lab, which is not overly useful. On the other hand, examples can be useful to illustrate a point which you've just made, in which case they're a good thing.

The sort of thing I don't particularly want to see might be "I learned a lot in the CO527 labs, e.g. that breadboard contains tiny sprung clips that hold bits of wire.".

The sort of thing I might want to see: "The CO527 lab gave me a better understanding of electrical circuits. For example, when wiring up the piezo buzzer I was much more confident about how things were being connected and used, but for the first LED circuits I followed the diagram blindly and kept double-checking.".

In this sort of scenario, anyone can write the first statement (the example is facts), but not everyone can write the second (as the example is something about learning and whether, how or to what extent that happened is very much individual and subjective). Maybe that helps..!

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