Getting ready

I bought a digital recorder from Argos today and am playing with it. I am one step closer to carrying out my empirical research. The next steps are to

- Print and laminate the information sheet

- Prepare a 'help' sheet

- Make appointments with my participants

I have some time in April, after my present job and before my new job. This will be the ideal time to rest and arrange some research encounters.

Another task is to develop a soft language for my research and build up my own terms of reference. 'Data analysis', for example, has a hard tone to it. 'Meaning making' might replace it more closely for the purposes of this study. Verse alone will not earn the project a place in the academic community. My lyric inquiry needs to adhere to a solid framework, with a clearly articulated rationale. Perhaps my first term of reference might be to give the methodological approach a suitable title.