Tuesday, September 16, 2008

After reviewing the documents in class and formulating questions, I have a better idea of how important it is to look at all the papers and to draw similarities and differences between them. I am thinking about how I will structure my research as I collect the different writings from the workplace. I have several ideas of types of questions i can ask during the interview to elicit different types of responses. The next thing I need to do is to write out a plan of attack, with a timeline and a checklist of the kinds of documents and other bits of information I plan to collect, to ensure that I have all aspects covered.

1 comment:

Scott Wible said...

I'm glad that you're feeling more comfortable now in terms of understanding how to go about examining the writer's texts that you're able to gather. We'll do more work in the coming weeks with these research methods, but for now I just want everyone to start getting a feel for the kind of research that this assignment requires -- that is, it requires careful, close analysis of data that you're able to collect, rather than simply asking a writer what he or she does in her daily work.