Sunday, October 28, 2012

Genre Memo 4


                        A methodology is an important genre because it is a piece of the research process. Methodologies give step by step procedures in their research journey, they tell what they did, how they did it, and how they plan on putting it all together.

                        Methodologies are important in our course because it gives an outline of the research process. It determines your method, and approach toward the goal of your research. Methodologies are a record of your process, which is very important to the researcher to know where their research is going.

 

Headers:          Most research methodologies include headers. This is for clarification, describing what the paragraph will be about in a few words, and its relevance to the research. This is also used to chunk certain pieces of information together for example, procedures, and data gathering.

Chronology:    Research methodologies tend to happen in chronological order, from where they originally start with their research and their journey until the end final product.

Format:            Some methodologies have different format but they are all similar. They include items such as bullets, and headers. They tend to have a short excerpt in the beginning to introduce their methodology. Some methodologies include graphs to display data. The format of methodologies is similar to academic journals.

Appeal:            Methodologies generally appear as credible, and very logical. They are written in formats such as academic journals, focusing on an academic audience.

 

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