Methodology chapters fail in patterns. Research questions are framed comparatively but the design is single-site. Sampling is purposive but justified as if it were random. Coding is described as thematic but the protocol reads as content-analytic. Scholaria's methodology review names the misalignment before the committee does.
Each finding is paired with the question a committee is most likely to ask and a recommendation the student can act on — a tightened research question, a refined sampling justification, or a clearer description of analytical procedure. The agent never rewrites the chapter; it shows the student exactly where the chapter needs to do more work.
