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Research project help - (Aug/31/2011 )

I've had some issues with my experiment so many changes were made to my original materials and methods. Should I report all changes in my methods section or should I save the changes for my discussion and mention them there only?
Thanks for any help

-campy85-

All changes should be in the methods section, so that people can reproduce your results elsewhere - putting changes in the discussion only would make it very hard to follow the method.

You can put something along the lines of: "Experiment X followed standard protocol Y with the following changes: change a, change b, change c..."

-bob1-