Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 1 The Scientific Grant Proposal and Its Narrative
- 2 The Aims Section
- 3 The Background Section
- 4 The Preliminary Studies/Progress Report Section
- 5 The Methods Section, Part 1
- 6 The Methods Section, Part 2
- 7 Other prose considerations
- 8 Technical features of sentences
- Glossary
- Index
6 - The Methods Section, Part 2
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2015
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 1 The Scientific Grant Proposal and Its Narrative
- 2 The Aims Section
- 3 The Background Section
- 4 The Preliminary Studies/Progress Report Section
- 5 The Methods Section, Part 1
- 6 The Methods Section, Part 2
- 7 Other prose considerations
- 8 Technical features of sentences
- Glossary
- Index
Summary
Chapter 6 continues the description of the Methods Section begun in Chapter 5 and focuses on:
Data-collection procedures
Data-analysis procedures
Data interpretation and expected outcomes
Potential problems and proposed solutions
Shared methods
Ending
In Chapter 5, Figure 5-1 gives the generic content and organization of a Methods Section. For convenience, this figure is reproduced and renumbered in Chapter 6 as Figure 6-1. Also for convenience, Case 5-9, showing a heading outline of a Methods Section, is also reproduced in this chapter as Case 6-1. Chapter 6 gives generic heading outlines in Tables 6-1 and 6-2. The term subsection will continue to be used in Chapter 6 to refer to a Methods subsection or sub-subsection, unless phrased otherwise for clarity.
Data-collection and data-analysis subsections and procedures
Proposed procedures are the actions and tasks that you intend to execute in order to acquire data that you will then analyze, interpret, and ultimately disseminate in professional journals and at professional meetings.
In the narrative, the specific actions that you and members of your research team intend to perform in order to achieve your proposed research objective and aims are variously termed procedures, protocols, tasks, methods, experiments, and methodological activities. These terms are not synonymous even though they are often used synonymously.
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- Successful Grant Proposals in Science, Technology, and MedicineA Guide to Writing the Narrative, pp. 197 - 243Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015