Method evidence record

Face-to-face Research Diary

A face-to-face research diary is a systematic reflexive log maintained by the researcher during in-person fieldwork. Unlike participant diaries, this is the researcher's own running record of observations, analytic thoughts, methodological decisions, and emotional responses captured during or immediately after direct, embodied encounters with participants or field settings. It serves simultaneously as a data source, an audit trail, and a reflexivity instrument within qualitative research.

Sources recorded, not reviewed

Source record

Citations copied verbatim from the method’s source record. No claim-level verification is inferred from them.

Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / survey-methodology

Holly, M. L. (1989). Writing to Grow: Keeping a Personal-Professional Journal. Heinemann. · ISBN 978-0435084592
Burgess, R. G. (1981). Keeping a research diary. Cambridge Journal of Education, 11(1), 75–83. · URL

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