After completing this activity, students will be able to:
- Recognize the shortcomings of “default” graphs in a software program.
- Be able to articulate why a particular graph is problematic for formal publication.
- Recognize that complex experiments often contain more than one variable requiring choices about how to present the data.
- Articulate how figure formatting can alter the focus of the scientific presentation.
- Outline how your personal work within lab reports meets or falls short of ACS requirements as outlined in author instructions within the ACS Style Guide.
Jennifer Monahan (Jennifer.monahan@slu.edu) and John Coulton, Saint Louis University
