Lab Reports

How to Write a Lab Report for a Canadian Science Course

5 min read · For Canadian students

A clean IMRaD structure for biology, chemistry, and physics.

Canadian lab reports follow IMRaD: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion.

Introduction: state the question and hypothesis. Two paragraphs maximum.

Methods: past tense, passive voice, reproducible.

Results: present data with figures and tables. Don't interpret here.

Discussion: interpret, compare to expected values, acknowledge sources of error.

Figures self-contained: title, axes, units, legend.

Cite textbook for methodology and peer-reviewed sources for context.

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