Introduction > Planning Your Research > Keeping a Record > The Ultimate Test

The Ultimate Test Ultimately, your materials and methods section should allow a researcher to replicate your research and obtain similar results. This can only be achieved, however, if you keep in-depth records to start with. Below is an extract from a student's materials and methods. Although this isn't actually part of the experiment, the environment in which the plants are kept before starting the experiment could prove vital. Given the following information, could you replicate the growing environment? “On delivery to the University of Reading’s Experimental Field Site, the plants were arranged into double rows and irrigation piping was positioned in the middle of each double row. Spaghetti drippers were added where required.” Can you think what information is missing or incomplete?

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