The Methods section tells the reader how you gathered the information or data for your report. It may be a description of an experiment or process. It is written so that another researcher could repeat what you did, and so should be sufficiently clear.

Usually, it is written in the past tense and passive voice. For example, "Information was gathered using..." (rather than "I gathered information using..."). You may also wish to justify why a certain method or approach was used, and possibly reference other scholars who have used a similar method in the past.

Examples of writing style/useful phrases for the Methods section:

Past tense, passive voice: e.g. Hourly samples were taken…
Show the purpose/relevance of the method: This allowed…
Where appropriate, explain how calculations/measurements were made: The sample was re-weighed in order to…