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 Time for a blog update on how my inquiry process has been going...

Where am I up to?

Lit review 

Im extremely glad to have finished writing my literature review. Even though we wrote one in module 2 I felt like it was completely new to me once again. However this time round I was much more organised, I kept a table to document each piece of literature, including the citation, URL, info about the publication and the author and date. this meant that although finding the literature and reading too time, I managed to actually write it within a day or two because I had all the information. 

Interviews 

I have finally finished conducting and transcribing all my interviews. I really enjoyed hearing about other peoples experiences, some of which completely challenged my own thoughts on the topic which is really interesting. My confidence definitely grew throughout the interview process, towards the start I mainly stuck to my structures questions, however as I moved through them I was able to enjoy the semi-structured aspect, probing further into unexpected routes. The interviews were much easier to carry out that I had predicted, the hardest part was finding the time to fit them into my own and the participants schedule. I also did 2 less that I had hoped for. This was because 2 of my planned participants had to pull out last minute due to external circumstances. The biggest challenge was transcribing them. It was incredibly time consuming and pretty tedious, if I were to do the process again I would account for more time to transcribe the interviews (I had not taken in to account how long this would take at all in my Gantt chart). 

Next Step

I am going to spend today writing my overview of the inquiry process. I believe this is the section to express my thoughts on the methods and the methodology that I chose, in which I will include some of my thoughts above about the interviews. Im not 100% sure what in particular I have to include in this section but I will read over the module handbook again and if anyone has any advice that would be amazing! 

I have managed to stay on schedule however knowing that Ive only got 2 weeks to conduct my analysis before the draft hand in is scaring me! Its not a lot of time, however I think as long as a plan my time wisely it should be possible... wish me luck! 

Shauna x









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