See It Across the Disciplines

The process rhetorical style is quite common in academic writing. While you mainly learn about the foundation of good process writing in an introductory writing class, you'll often encounter process writing in many of your science and health science classes.

Below, you'll see a sample lab report from an introductory biology class submitted in APA format. Key elements of the process style have been noted for you.

Just click on the link below to see the sample paper in PDF format. In the sample, scroll over the dialog boxes to find out more about the strategies and techniques of the author. If your browser doesn't support that function, you may want to download the PDF by clicking the download button on the right side of the program.