Overview
you will provide information about your participants, materials, and procedure in your Methods section. You will need SPSS for this and all data should come from there. Your participant section goes first, and it includes descriptive statistics about your sample (means and standard deviations for age as well as percentages for gender and race/ethnicity). Your materials and procedure sections include information about what you did and how you did it. You should write this section for an audience who is unfamiliar with your specific study but assumes that they do know research methods. Thus educate your readers about your materials and procedure, giving enough detail so they could replicate your study based on your descriptions. This includes explicitly describing your independent and dependent variables and talking about how you presented those variables to your participants. My suggestion is to look over the articles that you summarized in Paper I and see how they wrote their Methods. This will give you a good idea regarding the level of depth and detail you need in your own Methods section. Base it off the SPSS_StudyOne_CCC_Chang_25 file.