How to Draw a Research Methodology Flowchart
A methodology flowchart shows the reader your whole study at a glance: what you made, how you tested it and how you analysed the results. Examiners and reviewers love it because it saves them reading three pages.
1. List the stages
Write 4 to 6 stages in order, for example: formulation → characterisation → in vitro studies → in vivo studies → analysis. Each stage becomes one box.
2. Add the key details under each stage
Two or three short lines: the main tests or conditions (size, zeta potential, entrapment efficiency, MTT assay, 21-day wound model). Leave full methods to the text.
3. Show groups and numbers
For animal or clinical work, add a row with the groups and n per group. This answers the first question every reviewer asks.
4. Keep the design consistent
- One direction of flow (left to right, or top to bottom).
- One colour per stage, used again wherever that stage appears.
- Numbered steps and simple icons (flask, magnifier, test tube, animal, chart).
Describe your study in one paragraph in the Research Methodology Flowchart tool and it draws a figure like the example above.
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