How to make a work LOG

A work log It is a publication that is written in chronological order, about the order that someone has followed to achieve their goals. It is usually used in the field of education and is very useful to be able to repeat processes or evaluate if the procedure has been correct when submitting a job.

In this lesson from a PROFESSOR we want to explain what is and how to make a work log, so that you have the necessary tools to make your own notebook when the teacher asks you to.

A work log, or also known as logbook, It is a set of written sheets in which all the annotations, sketches or records of curious data are collected, which a person makes while writing a job.

Its origin goes back to the notebooks that travelers used in which they wrote down everything that happened to them, in case it could serve as useful information later. These notebooks were kept in a binnacle (deep chest) and this is where the name comes from.

Returning to the present, the log of a job collects all the information collected

during the writing of the work and that it is arranged chronologically. This file can help us to have an idea of ​​the exact procedure that an author has followed to write his work.

In this logbook, you must include the progress that are being done in the investigation and also the obstacles whom you meet. In this way, it is possible to know the exact conditions in which a work is written and the errors that it has had to go through to reach that conclusion.

A job log puts the importance in the process and not in the result of a specific investigation.

If you are doing a job for school, institute or university, surely you are interested in knowing how to make a abstract, a introduction and the conclusions of a job.

It is possible that your professor asks you to make a log, to see what is the procedure that you follow to develop a work. It is important that you start write the log from the moment they tell you, even before you start writing the work itself. Include in this notebook all the information you find about the topic you are going to develop, although at first glance it may seem irrelevant.

Once you finish the work and have to present your logbook, you must make sure that consists of the following parts:

Front page

Write the project's name and the name of the person who wrote it, in this case you. In teamwork, you must write down the name of all the members.

Table of Contents

It is a kind of index in which we will write the order of the contents and the page in which they are found, in order to find them quickly.

the workspace

They are the sheets of the work log where All annotations are found. It is the largest part of the notebook and contains all the sketches, annotations, articles of interest, curiosities, etc. that we have found throughout the process. It is good that these pages are numbered. Each of the entries can also be numbered.

Bibliography

You should dedicate this final space to write down all the books you have consulted, the pages from which you have obtained information or the suppliers from whom you have purchased material.

So that you can see it in an easy and schematic way, we are going to put a example of the central part of a work log.

• Monday, November 19, 2022: I received a new project from the director of the company to design a four-story building in a wooded area on the outskirts of the city. Once I had read the objectives of the project, I went to the construction site to observe and get to know the space.
• Clarification typo: Before going to the site of the future construction, I had a brief meeting with the director of the company to clarify some points of the project.
• Tuesday, November 20, 2022: I contacted several suppliers of construction materials and a team of experienced and reputable workers.
• Wednesday, November 21, 2022: I began to draw the first lines of the sketch of the building to be built. I worked between 9:00 am and 6:00 pm, taking several breaks.
• Thursday, November 22, 2022: I continued with the sketches from the day before, but found that the roof was poorly designed. I took a break and got to work on the solution to my problem.

We hope this lesson has helped you to know how to make a work log and be prepared whenever your teacher asks you to. If you are interested in continuing to learn more about this topic, do not hesitate to consult our writing section.