The Write guide

Write is where the report happens: real A4 pages, proper mathematics, and your actual graphs, tables and sketches inserted straight from your workspace. Write needs a free Plot45 account — sign up or sign in first.

Pages that print true

The Write room: a Hooke's Law report on an A4 page — aim, hypothesis, apparatus list, and the setup diagram inserted as a figure — with the formatting toolbar above. — The Write room: a real Hooke's law report, with a sketch inserted as a figure.

You write on A4 sheets with page numbers, the way Word works. What you see on screen is exactly what prints, and page breaks go where you put them. Headings, lists and plain paragraphs are all on the toolbar.

Equations

Use the equation button (or type LaTeX if you know it) and the mathematics renders properly — stacked fractions, square roots, subscripts — either on its own line or in the middle of a sentence. There is nothing to install.

Example: T = 2\pi\sqrt{L/g} becomes the real pendulum formula, typeset like a textbook.

Graphs, tables and sketches

The toolbar has three insert buttons — a graph, a data table, and a sketch — each opening a list of your saved workspace files:

A graph arrives as a numbered figure ("Figure 1.") with an editable caption. Figures renumber themselves automatically if you move them.
A data table arrives as an editable copy of the lab's table. If the lab has repeated trials, Write asks whether you want the Overall table or one of the trials tables — the same tables you see in Plot's sheet tabs.
A sketch arrives as a numbered figure, cropped neatly to your drawing.

Inserted content is a copy — editing it in the report never changes the original lab or sketch.

Assignments and hand-in

If your teacher set the report as an assignment, hand it in from the report itself. Handing in locks your work so the teacher marks exactly what you submitted; they can return it to draft if you need another go. Teacher comments appear in the margin, right beside the sentence they're about.