The following section is an excerpt from the example laboratory report, titled Proper Inflation of a Basketball. (The entire example report is available in either  Microsoft Word Format for printing, or  HTML format for online viewing.)

Acknowledgements

The authors gratefully acknowledge Dr. Mary Handley's helpful comments during the writing of this report.

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