WFE - week 5 METHODOLOGY

VOCABULARY

WRITING FOR ENGINEERING

WRITING THE METHODOLOGY SECTION

1 Provide a general introduction and overview of the materials / methods.
Restate the purpose of the work.
Give the source of materials / equipment used.
Supply essential background information.
2 Provide specific and precise details about materials and methods (i.e quantities,
temperatures, duration, sequence, conditions, locations, sizes.
Justify choices made.
Indicate that appropriate care was taken.
3. Relate materials /methods to other studies (citations).
4. Indicate where problems occurred.

VOCABULARY

1. Attempt – consider – conduct – determine – investigate – report – suggest – verify

Calculate – extract – isolate – formulate – incorporate – modify – plot – simulate
All tests are commercially available
Many trials were made
Most equipment was chosen
The majority of the instruments were obtained
The impact tests used in this work……
All reactions ----
In the majority of the tests …
Both experiments ……
…. was obtained ……
….. were used …..
….. was obtained from ……
The material investigated …….
The experiments were conducted……
2. To validate …..
…. in order to determine ……
By doing ….
…… with the intention of …….
The advantage of …….
……. so allowing …..
…. firmly …
…. at least …..
…… constantly ……
….. immediate ……..
….. slowly and carefully…….
3. …. as described in …….
As explained by / in …..
….. can be found in ……
Details are given by …….
In accordance with …….
Using the method of……
Similar to …..

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 With some adjustments…
With some modifications …..
APA citations:
Note: APA style requires authors to use the past tense or present perfect tense
when using signal phrases to describe earlier research, for example, Jones (1998)
found or Jones (1998) has found...

Short quotations

If you are directly quoting from a work, you will need to include the author, year of publication,
and the page number for the reference (preceded by "p."). Introduce the quotation with a signal
phrase that includes the author's last name followed by the date of publication in parentheses.

According to Jones (1998), "Students often had difficulty using APA style, especially when it
was their first time" (p. 199).

Jones (1998) found "students often had difficulty using APA style" (p. 199); what implications
does this have for teachers?

If the author is not named in a signal phrase, place the author's last name, the year of
publication, and the page number in parentheses after the quotation.

She stated, "Students often had difficulty using APA style" (Jones, 1998, p. 199), but she did
not offer an explanation as to why.

4. …. did not align properly ….

… limited by …….
…… it is recognized that ….
Unimportant
Quite good
However
Nevertheless
Future work should
Future work will
Inevitable, ……
While ………., a minor …..