You are just about ready to start collecting data. A number of you turned in the consent forms, and all of you spent class working on your research instruments (for example, the interview protocol, plan for observation, reflective writing => what every you tool or material you will use to gather/create data), developing a more in-depth research question, planning for data collection (identifying what you will look for/notice/ask about).
I briefly reviewed the points for getting started on transcription:
- Mark speakers by initials NOT THEIR NAMES. Do not transcribe an names.
- Type quickly, if you get stuck on a particular passage mark it as [u] for unintelligible, note the time, and move on.
- You don't necessarily need to type long digressions (off topic talk) but note where it is (note the time) and perhaps an indication of the focus (e.g. long talk about buying a car). There may be patterns in digressions that are meaningful - or you might realize that what you thought was a digression really was on-topic talk.
- You don't have to note silences, ah, um, and other markers for the flow in your first quick transcription, but you will want to go back and re-listen to the sections that seem "important" to your focus, and that you will use in your essay so that you can ADD these features as part of a more accurate representation.
- Be sure to include frequent notes of time elapsed.
Good luck getting started, and have a good weekend.
For next class: Turn in signed consent forms.
Blog 20: Post your interview protocol
If you are not doing an interview, post whatever you worked on in class and during the week. This is one place where you accumulate credit for writing process for your project.
We will get started on data analysis. I will talk about how to create and analyze transcripts in some more detail, so bring any transcription you may have started + any other data you might have.
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