Methodology of my research project

Design the methodology of a research project.

What is a methodology?
In short, the methodology chapter of your thesis/APP describes what you will do and how you plan to do it. It explains your research philosophy, whether you plan to use a quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods approach and why that methodology is most appropriate for your research question. It describes your data collection methods, your population, and the criteria you will use to recruit and select members of the population to become your sample. The methodology may include sample questions, but the actual data collection instruments are more commonly included in an appendix.

I will show that corporate wikis contain user-authored content that would benefit from technical communications management techniques such as those that are applied to online help. I plan to write a claim, gather and summarize the research around the claim, and provide supportive documentation including examples. If I were writing a thesis, I would follow a mixed methods research approach where I would identify a sample set of corporate wikis and survey the users about usage and management of the wiki.

I will likely write an APP because the research around managing user-authored content in a corporate wiki has not been sufficiently gathered and published in the last year.