The methods section of a research paper provides the information by which a study’s validity is judged. Therefore, it requires a clear and precise description of how an experiment was done, and the …

Four subsamples for each species and treatment were collected from the bulk litter during litterbag construction and analyzed for total C, N, and fiber using methods described by Madritch and Hunter …

Oct 12, 2008 · In this section, you should provide a description of any equipment or physical settings that were important aspects of your study. If you are conducting a study that involves precise …

The Method section (also sometimes called Methods, Materials and Methods, or Research Design and Methods) describes the data collection and analysis procedures for a research project.

Every discipline uses different methods for research. For example, a study on stressed students could be examined through focus groups in the Humanities or by tracking heartrates in the Sciences.

“The key to a successful Methods section is to include the right amount of detail--too much, and it begins to sound like a laboratory manual; too little, and no one can repeat what was done.”

However, for many research projects, there are different sorts of questions that need answering, some requiring quantitative methods, and some requiring qualitative methods. If the question is a …