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 One of the most important ways to credit a scientist’s work is through replication. Replicating a scientists’ work validates and reduces variability in experimental results. In the Methods project I conducted in the Writing in Biology Class at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the Fall of 2018, the process of replication was used to evaluate observation and inference skills. The goal was to have a reader recreate a similar multi-panel scientific figure to the one that the writer had created, only using a description of the process used to develop it. The multi-panel figure contained at least three pictures: a close up picture of a spider web, a picture of the relative location or setting of the web, and a map of the area on campus that the spider web was found.