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The Writing in Biology class at University of Massachusetts assigned a methods project to help demonstrate what is needed to make this section of a paper clear enough to replicate. In this, I photographed the Cattleya ‘War Paint’ Orchid and created a map showing the plants origin and made a figure depicting these. I wrote a methods section for this process in which another student followed so they could duplicate the figure as accurately as possible. The differences in the figures involved different items shown in the background such as other plants and the floor and different coloring of the figures and the flower. The format of the map, the letters for the panels and the panels in the figures are also different. These inconsistencies could be accounted by certain factors such as different day, time of day, equipment used and the specific details not being included in the methods.