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If you find this difficult to do,
如果你覺得這很難做到，
then a useful approach is to write the report as if it would be read by someone you know who is intelligent but unknowledgeable about your subject.
那么有一種很有用的方法你可以試一試，寫報告的時候假定你的讀者是你認識的很聰明的人，但是對你的主題不太了解。
A friend of yours, say. Write it as if this person were going to have to read and understand it.
比如你的好朋友。假定這個人必須要讀懂你的報告。
Indeed, it is a good idea, if you can, to get just such a person to read your report before handing it in.
其實，如果能在交報告之前找到一個這樣的人讀一下是非常不錯的。
The demands and expectations placed upon you will of course, vary with your experience of report writing.
對你的要求和期望當然也會在寫作實驗報告的不同階段有所變化。
Early on in your study, as an author of experimental reports, less will be expected of you than later.
在你的早期研究中，你是實驗報告的作者，對你的期望沒有研究后期那么多。
At this early stage, you will be expected mainly to show that you understand what you did in your report and its implications,
在這個早期階段，你應該重點展示的是，你了解自己在報告中所做的工作以及它的含義，
together with evidence that you have, at least a basic grasp of the demands of the report's format.
還有你搜集的數據，至少要展示出你對報告的格式基本掌握。
Later on, however, you will be expected to pay more attention to this research significance of what you did.
不過，之后你就應該更關注你做的研究本身的意義了。
The "why you did it" part will become more important because in being responsible for the choice of topic and design, you will be expected to be able to justify this choice.
這樣研究的原因部分就更重要了，因為你要對選擇的主題和研究設計負責，就要為做出的選擇找到合適的理由。
So you must be able to tell us why it is, that given the options available to you, you decided to conduct your particular study.
所以你必須能夠告訴別人，你為什么從諸多選擇里選擇了你選擇的這個研究。
You will need, therefore, to develop the habit of thinking about how the ideas that you're entertaining for your experiment or study will look in the report,
這樣你需要養成習慣，經常思考你選擇的實驗或研究主題在報告里應該如何呈現，
paying particular attention to how they will fit into the part of introduction.
尤其注意在介紹部分如何呈現。
Specific dangers that you must watch out for here are, first, a lack of adequate material to put in the section;
有幾點錯誤應該引起特別注意，第一，缺乏足夠的資料充實這一部分；
and second, the undertaking of a project that lacks any research justification, because it is based on assumptions that are contradicted by existing findings in the area.
第二，沒有找到合適的實驗理由就開始做項目，因為項目基本的假設，與領域中的現有發現相矛盾。
Thinking clearly in advance will help you to avoid making these mistakes.
所以提前想清楚可以幫你避免這些錯誤。
OK. Today we've had a brief look at the format of an experimental report, what each section is about and some of the basic issues like reader awareness, so on and so forth.
好的。今天我們簡單看了一下實驗報告的格式，每一部分的主要內容和一些基本問題，如讀者意識等。
Next time, we will discuss how to write up the introduction section.
下次，我們會討論怎么寫介紹部分。
