Your field notes are the MAIN component of the participant observation research

Your field notes are the MAIN component of the participant observation research project.
Throughout your research, you took copious notes about what you observed and thought and, of course, detailing any interactions you have or artefacts you acquire. Those wereyour SCRATCH notes – the notes you take during an interaction that will help you reconstruct it in detail later.
That detailed reconstruction makes up you FIELD NOTES.
Typically, field notes are typed, organized, and edited version of the notes you took during an observed event, along with your commentary and hypotheses about how you might analyze what you encountered. Field notes may include sketches or other visuals. They should incorporate a mix of detailed description and a narrative of your own experience and reflections.
The goal of this assignment is to give you some exposure to the challenges and possibilities of ethnographic research.
In ‘real life’, field notes provide the main data set that researchers come back to later – sometimes YEARS later – to write their arguments. That is why context and detail are key – these notes attempt not only to document what you see empirically, but to also conjure the full context in which you made your observations, questions you had along the way, and limitations or gaps that might be important later.
For this part of the assignment you will be turning in:
Typed Field Notes (~ 10-20 pages), including:
A 200-300-word introduction describing your field site (including any background research on the history) and research process.
A thematically organized compilation of all of your edited notes, observations, and artefacts. You should write short paragraphs explaining the theme or topical division, and offering some initital reflections on what your notes/ screenshots/ artefacts include
Full Transcripts and reflections of any interviews
A conclusion indicating how your research questions, ideas, and possible hyptheses were shaped by what you actually SAW.
The exact content and organization of the Field Notes will vary case-by-case.

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