** Below are the instructions From the Professor:
Interviews may provide most of your “data” or provide part of your data. Usually you will conduct informal interviews; often you will conduct in-depth interviews as a continuation of participant-observation fieldwork and notes. Interviews provide you the opportunity to capture the participants’ experiences and perceptions in their own words. Interviews may range from question/response formats to conversational to dialogue in nature. Interviews as a dialogic creation transcend the participants’ and the researcher’s words perceived as individual contributions.

1. Start with a working Research Question. This is the same as that used for participant-observation (may be slightly refined if so chosen).

2. Discuss your sampling plan.
2a. Who are you sampling? What are the criterion/criteria?
2b. What type of sampling? (Tracy, p. 135)
2c. How will you recruit?
2d. Interview Structure? (T, p. 139)
2e. Interview Type? (T, p. 140-141)
2f. Interview Stance? (T, p. 141-143)
2g. Interview Guide/Script (T, 151)

3. Because we will be using the transcripts of our interviews for coding and analysis…
You may work in a group of 4 students and conduct ONE 45 minutes-1 hour interview OR if you are working alone, you will conduct THREE 30-45 minutes interviews.
You will need to audio record the interviews.

** Conduct your interview/s.

4. Transcribe your interview/s.
3a. Develop a legend for your interview transcriptions (T, p. 177-181).
3b. Similar to your formal fieldnotes, include a header for each interview. Transcribe your interview/s.

5. Read and reread your transcriptions.

6. Based on your readings from the texts (primarily Tracy), class discussions, and your experiences in the field and when writing fieldnotes (raw and formal), write 3 pages reflection on Lessons Learned.

SUBMIT: 1) Item on the cover page in addition to your name. 2) Pages needed to document items 2a-2g. 3) Legend and Transcription/s. 4) Lessons learned.