Introduction:
Lab reports differ from each other even if they are talking about the same topic/issue. They differ from one and another because their study is being conducted with a different objective, when the study is being conducted in another objective they require to have different sets of data. The two reports I will be using have a related topic of climate change/global warming but have distinctive goals. The two labs being used in this paper are “A generalized framework for analyzing car lifetime effects on stock, flow, and carbon footprint” and “Perfect home composting of biodegradable waste resources for reducing carbon footprint and climate change associated with global warming- a microbiological approach”
Analyzing Abstract/ Keywords:
Reading the abstract for both lab reports, I was able to spot a difference between both. Initially while analyzing the abstract, I am looking for the purpose of the study, methodology, results, and conclusion. While reading the first article, “A generalized framework for analyzing car lifetime effects on stock, flow, and carbon footprint”, they started out with the purpose of their study which was to propose a new framework for estimating the effects of changes in the physical lifespan of cars and the possession lifespan of new and used cars on stock flow and carbon footprint (cite). They also mentioned the results from their study which they concluded that their results indicated that if car designers increased the lifetime of the new and used cars to achieve a large reduction in life cycle emissions (cite). The abstract for this lab report lacked the methodology they used in their study to get to their results. If they were to add the methodology the audience would have an idea of how they got their results.
The second article, “Perfect home composting of biodegradable waste resources for reducing carbon footprint and climate change associated with global warming- a microbiological approach”, their abstract in the beginning included a fact about organic biodegradable waste resources being thrown on dumping yards in India and neighboring Asian countries everyday (cite). By adding how poorly biodegradable waste resources are being poorly treated in these countries it is one of the key sources of biomethane escaping into the environment and responsible for global warming (cite). The abstract also includes the methods key factors of the study which is based entirely on bacterial decomposition without involving any insects and it is fast which can achieve a conversion in 24 to 72 hours (cite). Including the method key factors gives the audience a vision of how the study is being worked on and the time it takes to get results. There are no results from the study shown in the abstract, so it doesn’t really inform the audience about their study results whether progressive or not. The conclusion is provided and is descriptive enough for the audience to understand how their study is going to work out and how their study methods will help slow down global warming and help arrest climate changes to a perceptible level (cite). When comparing both lap reports, I find the second articles more useful because it provides a small background of the issue, how they plan on resolving the issue and what would happen if the issue was resolved. They keywords mentioned in both these articles were different but focused on the same issue about climate change and global warming.
Analyzing the Introduction:
Introductions are meant to grab the audience’s attention to keep the audience focused on their study. The introduction for the first article, “A generalized framework for analyzing car lifetime effects on stock, flow, and carbon footprint”, doesn’t really start off with a hook sentence it just goes straight to the point of their study. Reading the first line of the introduction made me feel lost and was a struggle to go forward and read about their study. Their introduction introduced background information of their study about physical and possession life spans of the cars. It had a lot of cited information in their introduction
In the second article, “Perfect home composting of biodegradable waste resources for reducing carbon footprint and climate change associated with global warming- a microbiological approach”, their introduction is brought in with an informative hook sentence to bring awareness of the issue with how solid waste is being managed all over the world. The introduction brings in background information related to their research, for example they talked about European countries and how they effectively they handlds their recycling and reduction of pollution levels (cite). They compare the way different countries handle their waste, for countries and China they talked about how they have gigantic amounts of solid waste daily (cite) because of their unorganized management with solid waste. To get the answers, they want which is reducing pollution released into the air , they need everyone to chip in some effort. Both these lab reports are looking for a way to reduce global warming, but the second article is the most useful report to read because it doesn’t lose the audience and is very informative about the issue.
Analyzing Methods:
Methods in a lab report are meant to describe the materials and procedures that are being used in their study. For the first article, we are aware from the beginning that it doesn’t provide a methodology. It talks about the generalized product lifetime analysis. It goes more in depth about how the way their data in being analyzed.
In contrast, the second article provides the method and materials which is subdivided into four sections. The first section is about home composting, a family of four members will have to manage biodegradable waste resources. The family is presented with instructions of how to handle the buckets with the waste. It is given a thorough description of how home composting is being taken care of. The second section is about community composting, the community composting has the same culture development as the home composting , but they received 45 to 50 kg of finely chopped resource daily. The sample collection section talks about how the composite sample of compost was collected after thorough mixing of the samples collected from composting units (cite). The fourth section is the organic manure analysis which talks about how the samples were cross checked and approving the analytical methods used for the process.
Analyzing Results:
The results section provides a description of the results that was obtained from the study. For the first article, the result is presented in graphs and is given a brief description about their results and the observation that were made while working on the study. On the other hand, the second article provides their results along with their discussion. For the results they are presented with table graphs and pictures from their buckets with biodegradable waste resource in it. The table graphs show how their data was calculated and taken care of. When introducing the table results they briefly discuss their results to get the audience a better understanding of their results.
Analyzing conclusion:
The conclusion in a lab report is to finalize your study. The conclusion mentions if the question and answers they found through their study was answered, as well as give a summary of the purpose of the study. The first article has their discussion and conclusion together as a section, so it provides the audience with a summary of their study’s purpose, and how to reduce air pollutants to make a change to global warming. The second article provided a summary of their study’s purpose which easily grabs the audience’s attention as well as resolving the issue of toxic air pollutants causing global warming. They present their solution effectively and thoroughly but need the audience (the public) to take a stand and help reduce climate change.
Conclusion:
Overall, the two lab reports I analyzed had a similar format structure but were presented differently. The first article was mostly giving a breakdown of how the physical and possession life span affects the car’s performance and how it releases toxic air pollutants because of the way the car was manufactured. The second article, on the other hand, was finding a way to control the way we can reduce carbon footprint from managing our waste properly and more efficient which decreases the toxic air pollutants reducing global warming slowly, but it’s an action being taken. Even if lab reports were focused on writing about similar topics, but if the study’s objective differs from each other they are not comparable.
References
Dhanorkar, M. N., Sabnis, A., & Kale, S. P. (2022). Perfect home composting of biodegradable waste resources for reducing carbon footprint and climate change associated with global warming — a microbiological approach. Cardiometry, 22, 185–190. https://doi-org.ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/10.18137/cardiometry.2022.22.185190
Nakamoto, Y., & Kagawa, S. (2022). A generalized framework for analyzing car lifetime effects on stock, flow, and carbon footprint. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 26(2), 433–447. https://doi-org.ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/10.1111/jiec.13190
