5.3. Page Numbering
Number all pages (including appendices) sequentially, as follows:
• Cover sheet:  no page numbers.
• Pages before Introduction (Summary, Table of Contents, List of Figures and List of Tables): lower case Roman numerals (i, ii, …), bottom center of page.
• Pages starting with Introduction: Arabic numerals (1, 2, …), top right-hand corner of page.
  Order of Report (all headings should be bolded and underlined)
• Cover Sheet
• Summary
• Table of contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Introduction
• Theory
• Equipment
• Procedure
• Results and Discussion
• Conclusions (and recommendations if included)
• Nomenclature
• References
• Appendices
6. MAJOR REPORT CONTENT REQUIREMENTS
Note: sample reports (of different labs) can be viewed upon request.
6.1. Cover Sheet
 A fully completed cover sheet, obtained by emailing dave.sharp@ualberta.ca or from the course web site, is to be attached to the front of every report. It must be signed in order for the report to be graded.
6.2. Summary (past tense)
• The Summary, the most widely read section of any report, should be written last.
• The Summary may be considered an "executive summary". It is a summary of the entire report.
• This section must not exceed one page in length. Anything over a page will not be read.
• Statements must be quantitative. Where appropriate, results should be presented in the form of dimensionless groups
• This section should convey the following information:
 
1. A very brief description of the study.
2. The objective of the investigation.
3. The results obtained.
4. The conclusions based on those results.
5. Possible recommendations (if there are any).
• The Summary must "stand alone". That is, the content must convey to the reader the important results (quantitative) without having access to the remainder of the report. You can not refer to any tables, figures, equations, etc., from the report in the summary.
6.3. Table of Contents, List of Figures, List of Tables
• The Table of Contents lists the major sections of the report along with the pages on which these sections begin. This section must be on a page by itself.
• The List of Figures lists figure numbers, figure captions, and the page number of each figure.
• The List of Tables lists all tables in the report, stating the table number, table title, and page number of the table.
• The List of Figures and List of Tables can both be on the same page.
• An example of each of these is provided at the end of this handout.
6.4. Introduction (present and future tense)
• The Introduction places the experiment within a larger context (gives a justification of the study), states the objectives of the experiment and might contain a brief review of literature on the subject.
• It is neither a summary of the report, nor a general description of the procedure used in performing the experiment and the calculations.
• It should orient the reader as to why the experiment is to be performed and briefly outline the approach that will be used in the study.
• In general it should include four* main topics: 1) an industrial example; 2) a direct link between that example and the objectives of the study; 3) an introduction to experiment that will be preformed; and 4) give the objectives of the study explicitly.