Avoid anecdotal information
Sometimes you may feel the need to justify a statement
or procedure by stating "'the instructor told us to do this instead of
that." You might think it appropriate to write "we used Microsoft
Excel to produce a graph of x versus y." Such information is anecdotal and
is considered to be superfluous.
A research paper summarizes a study. It does not
identify who did what. Reference to instructors, fellow students, teams,
partners, etc. are not appropriate, nor is it appropriate to refer to "the
lab".
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