Module 8: Describing Your Methodology

Your methodology is an important part of your review because if verifies the exhaustive research that you used as a basis for your analysis.

You need to explain to your reader how you located your sources; what you used to decide which of your discovered should be further examined; the procedures you used to analyze your sources; and the criteria you used. 

The parts of the methodology are thoroughly discussed on the Methodology Assignment page.

The Methodology is one of the parts in your literature review where you can write in the first person.  You can say "I used ERIC and Education Abstract to search for relevant resources."


How to Write a Methodology

This 9-minute video reviews the parts of a methodology and explores 4 example methodologies.



Examples

Here is a link to the Methodology Examples reviewed in the video.