Methods

This section is variously called Methods or Methods and Materials.

Function

🎯 Explain clearly how you carried out your study

  • Describe your experimental design clearly

  • Describe the procedures for your study in sufficient detail that other scientists could repeat your work to verify your findings

  • Describe how the data were summarized and analyzed

Style

The style in this section should read as if you were verbally describing the conduct of the experiment.

  • Requires more use of third person, passive constructions than other sections
  • Use the past tense throughout
  • Avoid use of the first person