20FA_BI232A-Invertebrate Zoology

Here are some general instructions on how to write a lab report and the rubric I will use to grade your lab reports.  Remember that this will be a group written report, but you will be responsible for all of the aspects of your teams paper so be sure to go over each other's work and give feedback.  Because we are "borrowing data" from NEON your methods section will be different from the traditional paper where the authors collected the data themselves.  That means that it will be shorter than a typical Methods section, but it may be harder to write.  You have to give credit to the NEON project of course.  But you still need to describe the study site and explain how your data were collected (go to the NEON site to find out) without going into elaborate detail.  For example - how were your mosquitoes collected - CO2 traps should go into your methods.  But details about the size of the trap, how far off the ground it was - are not important enough.  You just have to cite the NEON site so that if someone reading your paper wants to know that they can find it.