In Spring 2019, as part of the Writing in Biology course at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, I conducted a project in which I created a methods section for the construction of a multi-panel scientific figure, using photographs taken of an interspecific interaction involving parasitism. These methods were followed by a second student, and the observational differences between the original scientific figure and the replicated figure were recorded and compared. The purpose of this project was to observe differences in the two scientific multi-panel figures and identify the factors that caused them. I created a methods section that aimed to hold validity and provide instruction for an experiment that could be easily replicated, while also investigating factors to control and distinguishing between observational differences and inferences. The controlled factors in this experiment were the type of software used to create the figures, time of the day, and seasonality.
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