How to Write a Methodology

According to Richard Kallet, “the methods section describes actions to be taken to

investigate a research problem.” Today, we plan on helping you understand and perfect your writing abilities when it comes to conducting a research project, specifically writing a research methodology. Please stay tuned for our sequel post about how to write a results section of research paper.

As stated before, the methodology of a paper is crucial because the method you choose

affects the results of the project; An unreliable method will yield defective results. Therefore, it is crucial that you understand how to write the perfect methodology. A perfect methodology should have all of the following:

Now that the essential parts of a methodology have been laid out, we feel as though people learn best when given examples. Therefore, for optimal learning, we will discuss and analyze an example of a methodology of a research paper. For some background, this research paper was the first project in our Production and Elaboration of Web Messages class. We were tasked with conducting and writing a research paper on current event news websites.

The Methodology is as Follows:

A. Analysis Factors:

B. The Questionnaire Design

As shown, the five most important parts to have the perfect methodology are all found in the above example. If you understand important parts and their use in the example, you too have learned how to write a perfect methodology.

By: Margaret Hodge