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This chapter reviews how knowledge serves as a guide for research methods, and how to describe the intervention in evaluative research in a comprehensive manner. Among the concepts reviewed for the knowledge base are theory, observation, conceptual clarity, documentation, and organization. Tips for presenting the literature review are examined. Readers are given an exercise on the development of the knowledge base for a study they will conduct using the knowledge addressed in this section of the book. The readers learn how to describe the intervention in evaluative research with regard to objectives, structure, model, and personnel. Also examined are the themes of evidence for the intervention and treatment fidelity, the extent that the planned intervention was actually carried out in the study. Readers engage in exercises with regard to both the development of a knowledge base and the description of their own interventions.