How can prompts help structure ethnographic notes?
Prompts can turn messy field notes into structured observations: setting, behaviors, artifacts, quotes, and interpretations. Provide research questions and context. Ask for patterns, contradictions, and researcher bias reflections. Keep raw notes linked for transparency.
In practice
Separate observation from interpretation in the output to avoid conflating them.
Where to start
- [01]Feed raw notes labeled by session.
- [02]Generate structured summaries with quotes.
- [03]Compare across sessions for themes.
- [04]Capture open questions for follow-up work.
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