CMN 3103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Father, Jargon, Tim Hortons
16 Nov 2017
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2: remember that your reader is a real person and that you want to keep his or her attention. Including excerpts: using the words of your research participants gives power and emotional depth to your report, choosing excerpts from interview transcripts and field notes can be one of the most fun parts of writing up qualitative research. Excerpt and commentary: when i asked participants if there was anything that surprised them about their experience with being widowed, seven explicitly answered that simply the fact of being widowed was the most surprising aspect. One man made the following observation: no [surprises] . You know, my wife, it was a standing thing that i was going to die a long, long time before her . It never entered my head, or i never even thought about what i was going to have to do when i was alone. I never even thought about what it would be like .
