השוואת שיטות

	יומן מחקר	רשימות שדה	ניתוח נרטיבי
תחום	מתודולוגיית סקרים	מתודולוגיית סקרים	איכותני
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	1981 (methodological codification); diary use in research dates to 19th-century anthropology	Late 19th century (formalized in 20th century)	1967 (foundational); 2008 (canonical handbook)
הוגה השיטה	Robert G. Burgess (systematic methodological treatment)	Rooted in 19th-century anthropology and sociology; systematized by ethnographers such as Bronislaw Malinowski and later Robert Emerson et al.	Catherine Kohler Riessman (seminal synthesis, 2008); roots in Labov & Waletzky (1967)
סוג	Qualitative data collection and reflexivity tool	Qualitative data collection and recording technique	Qualitative interpretive method
מקור מכונן	Burgess, R. G. (1981). Keeping a research diary. Cambridge Journal of Education, 11(1), 75–83.	Emerson, R. M., Fretz, R. I., & Shaw, L. L. (1995). Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 978-0226206813	Riessman, C.K. (2008). Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences. Sage.
כינויים	researcher diary, field diary, research journal, reflexive diary	fieldnotes, observational notes, ethnographic notes, jottings	narrative inquiry, life history analysis, biographical research, Anlatı Analizi (Narrative Analysis)
קשורות	6	6	6
תקציר	A research diary is a systematic, dated log maintained by the researcher throughout a study to record methodological decisions, emergent observations, analytical hunches, and reflections on researcher positionality. Unlike a participant diary, it is authored by the researcher and functions simultaneously as a data source, an audit trail, and a reflexivity instrument.	Field notes are detailed written records created by researchers during or immediately after direct observation in a naturalistic setting. They capture what is seen, heard, and experienced — including behaviors, interactions, physical environments, and the researcher's own analytic impressions — forming the primary data source for ethnographic and observational studies.	Narrative analysis is a qualitative research method, synthesised canonically by Catherine Kohler Riessman (2008), that examines how individuals storise their lived experiences and construct meaning through the telling. Drawing on life history, biographical, and narrative inquiry traditions, it treats the story itself — not just its content — as the unit of analysis, attending to temporal sequence, plot structure, and the social context in which a narrative is produced.