Draft

The methods project required students to create a multi-panel scientific figure of an interspecific interaction. A methods section was then created by the student to describe in detail how to replicate the figure created. The purpose of the project was to be able to see if the methods that were written could lead to an accurate replication of the multi-panel figure created. There were three separate panels in the figure that consisted of lichen and a tree. The differences observed in this figure was of background, color, and labeling. These differences were a result from the differences in weather and positioning of the photo.

As part of the the Writing in Biology class of Spring 2019 in University of Massachusetts Amherst I had to create a multi-panel figure that depicted an interspecific interaction that was replicable. The majority of scientific articles include a methods section, this section allows other scientists to replicate the results that were obtained in the original article. The purpose of this project is to help develop the skills needed to write a thorough methods that can be replicated. In this project, the interspecific interaction between a lichen and a maple red tree will be photographed.