The Method Section: A Recipe for Research

Every empirical research paper must have a section titled ���Method��� (or ���Methodology,��� or ���Study Design���). In this section, you describe what was done to obtain the data presented in the following ���Results��� section. You explain the recipe, which may be replicated later by another researcher, leading to the same (or very similar) results.

[image error]Underground (1995) by Emir Kusturica

The Method section is the essence of the research. Think of it as a recipe: youtell the reader what ing...