methods section draft ; organizing operation = this paper compares, divides, defines, etc.

Remember that

• This methods section that's due this Friday is an opportunity for you to "write yourself into" the language that you want to use for later on. By that I simply mean, use it mostly as an opportunity for you to really push your thinking and try to produce those really good road map sentences like in the example, sentences that explain what organizing operation the section does, possibly in the form of a topoi. The best possible thing that could happen is that you figure out a clearer and more effective way of communicating what you were trying to communicate. The topoi will really help here.
• But this is a more informal exercise. Where it really counts will be in the final literature paper that's due on the 12th. 
• Be sure that this is in a separate document that's labeled appropriately on the blog.
• also remember that you're trying to re-think your search strategy--not the strategy of the other researchers whose articles you read. 
• the purpose of the methods section is to provide enough information so that another researcher could exactly replicate your search process to find all of your same articles in the same way that you did. 
• organizing operation = the research verbs and active verbs we were talking about. the methods section is supposed to be passive, and, although I used active, I didn't use I: I used "This literature review compares..." Either way, you can't use the first or second person ever. No "I." No "We." No "you."