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Making the Most of Your Research Journal: Chapter 5

5.1 Lesley Price Reading notes and annotations
5.1 Lesley Price Reading notes and annotations

This double page demonstrates how note-taking and cross-referencing may be done to make it easier to review and revisit earlier journal entries at a later stage of the process.

 

5.2 Vignette template (doc)
This template is my adaptation from Ann Lieberman's (1987) work to support the systematic recording of critical incidents and vignettes.

 

5.3 Nicole Brown Critical incident
5.3 Nicole Brown Critical incident

This extract from my own journal, where the page has a two-third and one-third split for annotations demonstrates how critical incidents can be used to catch up with any entries that may been missed in the heat of the moment during the research process.

 

5.4 Application of vignette template in critical incident entry (doc)
The example in this document offers an insight into how to apply the vignette template to a critical incident entry.