เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	ไดอารี่การวิจัย	ระเบียบวิธีบันทึกประจำวัน	บันทึกภาคสนาม	การวิเคราะห์เรื่องเล่า
สาขาวิชา	ระเบียบวิธีสำรวจ	ระเบียบวิธีสำรวจ	ระเบียบวิธีสำรวจ	เชิงคุณภาพ
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	1981 (methodological codification); diary use in research dates to 19th-century anthropology	1920s–1940s (systematised by Allport, 1942)	Late 19th century (formalized in 20th century)	1967 (foundational); 2008 (canonical handbook)
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Robert G. Burgess (systematic methodological treatment)	Gordon Allport (systematic social-science use); Nels Anderson (early fieldwork diaries)	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)
ประเภท	Qualitative data collection and reflexivity tool	Qualitative / mixed-methods data-collection technique	Qualitative data collection and recording technique	Qualitative interpretive method
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Burgess, R. G. (1981). Keeping a research diary. Cambridge Journal of Education, 11(1), 75–83.	Alaszewski, A. (2006). Using Diaries for Social Research. Sage. ISBN: 978-0761941415	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.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	researcher diary, field diary, research journal, reflexive diary	diary study, diary technique, self-report diary, daily diary method	fieldnotes, observational notes, ethnographic notes, jottings	narrative inquiry, life history analysis, biographical research, Anlatı Analizi (Narrative Analysis)
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	6	5	6	6
สรุป	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.	The diary method is a data-collection technique in which participants record their thoughts, behaviours, events, or experiences in their own words at regular or event-contingent intervals over a defined study period. By capturing data close in time to the event, diaries reduce retrospective recall bias and give researchers access to the texture of everyday life as it unfolds — something one-off surveys and retrospective interviews cannot provide.	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.