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Do Now. Which methods are most important to proving your hypothesis? Aim: Learn how to write a methods section; review results. Continuation of Lab Report Project . Methods Section. What goes in the Methods Section.
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Do Now • Which methods are most important to proving your hypothesis? • Aim: Learn how to write a methods section; review results. Continuation of Lab Report Project
What goes in the Methods Section • The purpose of this section is to describe your research design and the method of data collection. • You should tell the reader how you are doing your research and why you adopted these particular methods.
What Goes in the Methods Section • Describing the materials used in the study • Explaining how the materials were prepared • Describing the research protocol • Explaining how measurements were made and what calculations were performed • Stating which statistical tests were done to analyze the data
An example of a poorly written method section from a biology report
An example of a poorly written method section from a biology report
An example of a poorly written method section from a biology report
What’s our Methodology? • We used different methods for each of the different tests. • Do we need to write about every test and every method that was used? • Lets write a list of steps used in the methodology on the chalk board.
