SOC 7141 Chapter 13: SOC 7141 - Chapter 13

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 7141
• Professor: Kathleen Rodgers

Document Summary

Memo writing is the step between data collection and the written draft of your paper. When the memo is written you stop and analyze any ideas about the codes that occurs to you during any moment. It is a crucial method in grounded theory as it is considered as a prompt to analyze your data and codes early within the research period. Moreover, it keeps you involved in the analysis and increases the level of abstraction of your ideas as some codes may stand out. It captures your thoughts, your comparisons, your connections, and crystalizes the questions and directions you may pursue later. New ideas and insights will arise as well, write it down store it and look at it later. It also helps to fine tune your gatherings. The analytic notes are further used to fill out categories. Begin with codes that are focused as memos are a space and place for making comparisons between data and codes.