I have finished all the transcriptions (yay!). Plus, when I sent them to participants for triangulation, all the feedback I got was positive--the participants found the transcriptions accurate and were excited to be helping me with my project (so they said in their emails). I have spent the past few days reading qual. methods articles and books. Uggh--there is so much I feel I don't know. I am also worried that I am putting off the actual writing of chapter 1, which I was warned about by several postdocs.
I am also worried about the quality of information I am getting from these texts. Two of the texts I just picked up at my local library (city, not university). There were several great articles in each, but one book is copyright 1975 and the other one copyright 1990. So, a tad bit out of date. The other two major books I am reading on the subject were recommended to me by my committee chair. They are more recent, but I find the writing style aesthetically awkward and so am having trouble getting the information with an unbiased frame of mind. I just can't seem to keep from groaning at the style, and I am afraid I will discount very useful information because I can't see past the aesthetics of the prose. It's a problem.
Other than that, I intend to spend the day updating my Endnote program with all the qual. methods stuff. Exciting. no?
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At the risk of giving you yet another way to keep from starting that elusive Chapter 1, have you come across Zotero before?
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