SOC 7141 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Fieldnotes, Ethnography
6 Nov 2018
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About fieldnotes: plan to spend at least 2 hours every day of one of your studies writing up notes, coding and working on your personal note diary. Remember that it takes twice as long to write notes and transcribing than it does to conduct the interview. Avoid not going to bed and not writing anything as you can forget important details. Create many small notes rather than just large ones such as daily, managing them through date rather than throwing them into the same folder. How to write fieldnotes: jottings also known as scratch notes, they are what you use to get through the day. Human memory is poor for recording information, especially for qualitative research details and formal and informal interviews. It will also help you when something strikes you and will provide as a trigger for when you need to recall this specific event, even if it is only a few keywords.
