We have found the following sorts of questions useful in beginning to examine specific fieldnotes: • What are people doing? What are they trying to accomplish? • How, exactly, do they do this? What specific means and/or strategies do they use? • How do members talk about, characterize, and understand what is going on? What assumptions are they making? • What do I see going on here? What did I learn from these notes? Why did I include them? • How is what is going on here similar to, or different from, other incidents or events recorded elsewhere in the fieldnotes? • What is the
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