Begin thinking about your research methods;  Participants – Who will your research subjects be? How will you find them? How many will you need? Are there any potential dangers to your participants in undertaking this research? How will you protect your participants from harm and safeguard their privacy? What questions do you have about methods and data collection at this time and how will you answer them?

For my research my participants will be female college students attending IUP. I will find them by asking class mates and friends that I know around campus. I will use people who I know and that are familiar with me because I feel that it will be easier for them to open up and give me a more honest opinion. I will interview about 10 females so that I will have enough variety in my research. There will be no potential danger for my participants because i will only be asking them about how they feel on their body type, what influences how they feel on their body type, and what type of things they do to keep their figure, also if they would like to change their figure and how. Lastly I would also like to ask their weight and height and if they believe that their weight is a heathy weight for their own body type. Their will not be any danger to my participants because I will not give their names out, the only thing that I will release is their age and grade in college.

The only questions I have with data collection is having a set number of questions I will ask and knowing how many to ask, I also haven’t come up with a set of questions that I will be asking to each participant yet. I will answer these questions by looking up methods and other studies and seeing how many questions another writer may have used in an interview. I also am not sure with how many participants I should use, as of now I will be using 10 but I may increase that so I can receive better results.