Blog #11
The full text of my article can be found @:
http://psychology.about.com/od/psychologywriting/ht/method.htm
This article addressed writing a method section specifically for the type of paper that I am doing, an APA formatted research paper. For this, my methods section needs to be thorough enough that a reader could fully replicate my study based only on reading this section. It explains who the participants were, what they did, what the researchers did, and details how all data were gathered. my methods section will include how I chose my participants as well as how many and from what population, will explain my interview process including all of my questions and all of the controls i used to make the interviews effective as well as a description of how they were conducted. At the end of my methods section, a reader should have a clear sense of the strengths and limitations of my methodology, and should be capable of replicating my work if they desire to do so.
