Research Methods or Experimental Methods Describe the specific methodology you will use in your research – how you plan to do (conduct) your research and/or how you will test your hypothesis(es). If humanities research: are you using textual analysis, close text reading; historical analysis, psychoanalysis, etc? Are you engaging in philosophical inquiry, comparative analyses. Are you using primary or secondary sources or both? What is your plan for conducting the research? Where will you get your information/data and/or subjects? Or describe the detailed experimental or instrumental methods and/or techniques you will employ. Are you doing quantitative or qualitative analysis, or mixed methods? Are you going to tally information (what information) and present it in tables or graphic form? Are you using multivariate analysis – if so what are your independent and dependent variables, what relationships do you hypothesize; and how are you analyzing them? Are you using someone else’s model or methodology? Explain why you are using the methods you have chosen, and what you expect the methodology to help you to learn or discover. What are the strengths and weaknesses of your methodology? Discuss the limitations of your methods. Are there ways you will overcome the limitations? Reference where you got the method from, what literature, disussion with mentor, etc. Include a reference section if relevant.