Face-to-face Field Notes
Face-to-face field notes are a foundational qualitative data collection technique in which the researcher is physically present in the setting and records observations, interactions, events, and contextual details in written form. As the canonical mode of ethnographic and observational research, in-person field notes capture the social texture, nonverbal cues, spatial arrangements, and moment-to-moment dynamics of real-world settings that remote or mediated data collection cannot fully replicate.
Source record
Citations copied verbatim from the method’s source record. No claim-level verification is inferred from them.
- Emerson, R. M., Fretz, R. I., & Shaw, L. L. (1995). Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. University of Chicago Press. · ISBN 978-0226206813
- Bernard, H. R. (2011). Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches (5th ed.). AltaMira Press. · ISBN 978-0759112421
Curated claims
Claims persisted in the evidence ledger, each with its own assessment.
This view does not invent a claim assessment when the ledger has none.
Related methods
Generated from the method graph and shown as machine-suggested relations — no evidence claim is inferred.