methods paragraph for introduction

The introduction also should include a paragraph about methods, which should describe how the project collected and analyzed data, and your part in that.

Here's an example,

This research was conducted by students in three of Timothy Kubal's sociology classes during the fall 2014 semester.  I was in the Popular Culture class.  We began conducting practice interviews during the first week of classes, and by the third week had conducted several practice interviews and completed a test on the American Sociological Association's Code of Ethics.  We were then given the interview guide, which contained about 50 questions.  All the questions were closed-ended questions except open ended questions on music, homelessness, and inequality.  We practiced on a classmate, and made suggestions regarding question wording.  The survey was then finalized and we began interviewing over the next three weeks.  Each of us chose our informants based on convenience sampling (we interviewed whoever we wanted), and were told to interview family and friends, and to find a diverse group of interviewees based on race, class, gender, and education.  I enjoyed doing the interviews and noticed my interviewing skills improve as I progressed.  We all used the icati recording system which allowed the use of the phone as a recording device, and emailed us a link to the recording, which we pasted into the last question of the survey, thus connecting the recordings to the surveys.  Most interviews were conducted in a face to face fashion, although some were recorded using the icati system to make a 3-way call with the interviewee.  Interviews lasted between 15 minutes and 1 hour.  Most interviews were about 25 minutes.  I personally conducted 5 interviews, and all my interviews were over 30 minutes.  All of my interviews were face to face interviews.   After conducting over 700 interviews total, students then transcribed their own interviews.  I transcribed all five of my interviews.  I did not like transcribing as much as other parts of the research process.  The professor then cleaned the data and gave us the data in computer analysis programs SPSS and Nvivo.  Then we began the analysis; first I  produced a quantitative paper, using the SPSS program to produce five chi-squared tables.  Then I produced a qualitative paper using Nvivo to analyze patterns in the quotes related to my tables. And then the qualitative and quantitative papers were combined into the current draft; the following analysis is the product of these efforts.