Aim: develop guidelines on how to write and integrate tables and figures in a technical piece of writing, such as a lab report or scientific research paper.

Tables and figures serve to summarize data analysis and results you have collected and present them to your readers in an understandable way. You should consider using tables and figures when words do not get the message across as effectively as a visual aid would.

You surely have come across many tables and figures in your student life. Here are examples of both. Look at the way they present information:

Table model:

Figure model:

Questions:

• Do tables and figures organize the information in the same way?

• May the some kind of information go on a table and a figure?

• Do all analysis and results require a table or a figure?

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