📽️ Framing note-taking (1/3)
# Notes as representations of knowledge
- Considered a part of other methods
- Understands notes as representational
- Used to inform subsequent analysis
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Much methodological writing about note-taking within academic work focuses on its role in other research methods, especially in concert with methods like ethnography or interviews. These approaches tend to focus on ensuring that notes are as representational of their subjects as possible.
This makes sense: Notes represent what the researcher observes as relevant about an object of study, and are used to inform subsequent analysis of that object once it is no longer within view.