This blog serves as a documentary record of my research process. As Riessman (2008) proposes, it is important to keep "a diary, a log, of decisions and inferences made during the course of a research project" (p.191). As I near the end of the research process, my self-confidence wanes, especially since I have chosen to analyse and present the data in diverse and individual ways, according to my own response to each story. Riessman warns that some academic audiences might expect more than poetry, for example. This blog serves as a piece of my shield. With Riessman I concur that "we have to take responsibility for the validity of our interpretive conclusions, and document how we arrived at them" (p.199).
Step by step
Declare it
Stop and turn
Don't hide it
Piece by piece
Keep going
You can do it
You can do it
Riessman, C.K. (2008) Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences. Los Angeles, USA: Sage.
