Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Research Blog Post 3

From the "Research Portfolio" article, the most useful information I learned was to keep everything together. I didn't know that collecting artifacts was such a big deal. I like the idea of keeping the artifacts in the portfolio, because I love scrapbooking. I know it's not the same thing, but it's good enough for me!
The "Considering Fieldnotes" article helped me decide that I don't want to use numbers as a way to identify my informants. The second study in the article by Margery Wolf used numbers, and it did nothing but confuse the heck out of me. I didn't enjoy reading it at all. Therefore, I am going to make up names for my informants.
From "Considering Details" I learned that I really will need to write down EVERY single detail. Some of the things are common-sense like writing down the time and place of the observation though.

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