Writing any sort of report or publication usually involves a

Specifications for the methodology and experimental design

Assignment specifications – methodology and experimental design

Writing any sort of report or publication usually involves a ‘testing’ or evaluation phase of some sort. What the testing is depends on the sort of report or paper you are writing.

If you are writing a report that reviews existing work (generally as a result of your annotated bibliography), you need to analyse all the works in your bibliography to determine what are their common elements, how well they perform at what they claim to do, what other advantages or disadvantages they might have, and how they compare to each other. That is, you are testing all of the works by comparing their characteristics and will be able to conclude which is best/worst/acceptable or whatever. Importantly, you may also be able to propose an idea which is a novel way of understanding the readings you have collected, perhaps according to a theme they all address.

If you are writing a paper that is presenting your own original work (such as in a better-quality minor thesis and definitely in a PhD thesis), you not only do the review of existing work as described above, but also will develop a method for testing your original idea. What this method will be depends on your work.

If you are a computer scientist, then you would assess an original idea by implementing it in a working system and then evaluating its performance or outcomes. You would devise experiments to assess whether it was an improvement over similar systems that might aim to do the same thing. Those experiments would generally involve collecting data of some sort for your system, and comparing that to the same data collected when using the similar systems.

 

What is required

For the purpose of this assignment, you will be writing an individual methodology / experimental design proposal to evaluate the claim/postulate/theme your team is taking in the Research paper. The Research paper needs to review relevant literature (as you are doing in your Annotated Bibliographies), and from there to identify a theme/common elements or some other novel point of view for the collection of readings used in your Annotated Bibliographies, and then evaluate the theme against the readings.

Working independently in the Week 7 writing session, each person will need to condense an idea or theme from the readings in the annotated bibliographies of the group, and identify how each reading supports or otherwise the idea or theme. Outline questions you are going to ask when you assess each reading.

This forms your individual methodology, which outlines how you are going to go about assessing what has been achieved in the readings and whether it meets a need.

Then in week 8, you will take your methodology proposal to your group’s meeting/discussion, when the group will select the group’s final methodology, either by choosing one of the individual ones, or by selecting the best parts of individual methodologies to make a combined group one.

 

Submission format

The final submission of the methodology and experimental designs will be an aggregation of the individual methodologies from the entire group, along with the final methodology that was settled on by the group during week 8.

The final submission of the methodology and experimental designs should take the following form:

• all members of the group should collate their individual methodology proposals into a single file;
• the selected methodology proposal should appear first. If the selected methodology was condensed from any or all of the individual proposals, the contributions from each individual proposal should be described in a separate page appearing immediately before the selected methodology;
• the file should start with a cover page and a table of contents. The cover page should list the full names of all members of the group and a working title of the Research paper.

A single PDF or doc/docx should be submitted by one member of the group only.

Marks will be deducted from each team member if any of the above prescribed sections are missing, up to a maximum of 5 marks per person of the 30 available for this assignment. Submissions of individual methodologies will not be accepted.

 

Each person’s individual methodology and experimental design should take the following form:

• in a single paragraph, outline the claim, postulate or idea that your methodology will evaluate (5 marks);
• frame your methodology as a series of research questions (and subquestions), and descriptions of how you will answer each of the research questions (15 marks);
• in a single paragraph, describe how finding the answers to each of your research questions will evaluate your claim, postulate or idea (5 marks);
• in a single paragraph, review how your whole methodology will address the claim, postulate or idea (5 marks).

 

Marks for this assignment

The assignment is worth 30% of your final mark for the course. Each person’s mark will be judged primarily by their individual contribution. If the individual’s contribution forms part or all of the final, selected methodology chosen by the group, the mark may be improved.

 

Submission Method and Date

Only one person from each group should submit the aggregated methodology/experimental design assignment.

Submit the methodology and experimental design via learnonline at the end of week 8.

 

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