So sánh phương pháp

	Nhật ký Nghiên cứu	Phân tích Tường thuật
Lĩnh vực	Phương pháp luận khảo sát	Định tính
Họ	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Năm ra đời	1981 (methodological codification); diary use in research dates to 19th-century anthropology	1967 (foundational); 2008 (canonical handbook)
Người khởi xướng	Robert G. Burgess (systematic methodological treatment)	Catherine Kohler Riessman (seminal synthesis, 2008); roots in Labov & Waletzky (1967)
Loại	Qualitative data collection and reflexivity tool	Qualitative interpretive method
Công trình gốc	Burgess, R. G. (1981). Keeping a research diary. Cambridge Journal of Education, 11(1), 75–83.	Riessman, C.K. (2008). Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences. Sage.
Tên gọi khác	researcher diary, field diary, research journal, reflexive diary	narrative inquiry, life history analysis, biographical research, Anlatı Analizi (Narrative Analysis)
Liên quan	6	6
Tóm tắt	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.	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.