2. What is it?
Where should it be stated?
How should it be?
Why should you state this part
in your research report?
3. What is it?
The methodology part of your research report
(thesis) is a detailed description of the methods,
techiques, procedures, and strategies used to
gather evidences and factual data to support your
arguments and conclusions.
The main parts you must describe are these:
- Research approach
- Research type
- Research design
- Research process
- Population / subjects
- Objects analysed
- Instruments used
4. Why should you state this part
in your research report?
The research methodology description shows how
systematic you were to collect the information. It
also demonstrate you know about research
methodology, but most important, that each
component in your research matches together.
For example: if you state that your approach is
quantitative your instruments must be of this type.
This is also a key componente to test your results or
replicate your study.
5. Where should it be stated?
The methodology part of your research report
normally is described as a complete chapter, in the
case of a thesis, chapter III. This must take up parts
of chapter I. It must also deepen in the process and
procedures applied along the whole research.
Chapter I Chapter III
6. How should it be?
Chapter III or the research methodolgy part must
be described at detail. You should state what the
theory states (supports), discuss how such theory
impacts what you’re doing, describe what you are
doing, and match the theory and your fact in a
strong concluding argument.
You must always respond to the ‘how…’.
How I am
doing…
