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OK so hopefully you found out what the sections of your methods section need to be and therefore what

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headings you had to use for the outline.

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And now let's turn this outline into text.

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And first of all, I just want to give you some general writing tips.

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And the first is what I already said: Use appendices to add extensive amounts of information. In addition

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to that: use short sentences.

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Same as the introduction section.

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Short sentences are easier to read than long sentences. And write in past tense.

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The study happened in the past.

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So write about it in the past.

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Okay.

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And for the rest it's actually straightforward.

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You just need to put your bullet points into words. And to inspire you a little bit.

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You can go again to the methods outline and writing template.

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And when you go to the second page you can find some examples of expressions that you may find in a

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method section.

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So for example for the design you may write something like: "The study used between subject design (treatment

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group, control group) with a depression score on the XXX depression scale as dependent variable." Or for

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the procedure you may write something like: "Before the experiment started,

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participants were randomly assigned to two groups. Or: "The experiment consisted of two faces. In the first

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phase,...

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In the second phase,...". So hopefully these expressions can help you to turn your outline into text.

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If you need more then you can also use again the useful English expression sheet.

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And here for example you can find.

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Let's see. Here.

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"Describe a sequence of events." That could be useful for the procedure section for example.

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All right.

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For the rest is really straightforward.

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Just write the points out that you already wrote down in bullet points and I think you will find that

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writing the method section is a lot easier than writing the introduction section.

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All right that's it for this lecture and I see you for the results section in the next lecture.