Virtual Experiment - Tutorial 1 Written Assignment

Assignment Task:

The purpose of this task is to provide you with training in data manipulation and analysis, graphical presentation of data, data interpretation and use of scientific search engines, as well as critical review of the literature. The primary goal of this assignment is to prepare a scientific report based on the above investigation. You need to write your report reflecting a real-life laboratory experiment. You need to recognise that this is a piece of scientific writing, but NOT an opinion piece and therefore you must avoid casual language and colloquialisms and the document must be grammatically correct. The assignment has to be in the form of a scientific report with sections including title, abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion, references, tables and/or figures. You are advised to familiarise with the detailed marking criteria and standards provided for this assessment task in the Learning Guide. The assignment must include references according to Harvard Referencing Style as shown in below examples: