HOW TO WRITE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY?

• Research Methodology


  Describe what you did and how you did it. The interested reader should be able to repeat the study from the account provided.
• Research Methodology


  • Be concise, precise, and logical in your writing.
  • Use the past tense in writing the methods section.
• Steps in writing Research Methodology


  1. Participants

  2. Materials or Apparatus

  3. Design & Procedure
• Participants section


  Tells the reader a minimum of three pieces of information: 1) who was in your study, 2) the population used, 3) any restrictions on the nature of your participant pool.
• Materials or Apparatus section


  Tells the reader what equipment and tools you used to run your experiment and to acquire data.
• Apparatus vs Materials


  It is traditional to label the section "Apparatus" if you are mostly describing mechanical devices; to label it "Materials" you are describing mostly paper and pencil type items.
• Design & Procedure


  • Describe the type of design used in the research. Specify the variables as well as the levels of these variables.
  • This subsection gives the reader a summary of each step in the execution of the research.