Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Finishing up

This past week has been very difficult in terms of the amount of work and pulliong all of my research into the ARP and then formatting it in a way that made sense logically and was easy to read as well as to understand. Cleaning up surveys, observations, and interview results, particularly the coded results,was difficult becuase a certain amount of discretion goes into coding all of these and deciding what to include and what to leave out; what's meaningful and what's not. The final ARP, including appendix, is nearly 30 pages which is one of the longest papers I've ever written though I feel a great sense of satisfaction at having completed such a large scale project. The multi-modals were a great addition to this project and forced me to consider my research from new and interesting angles which I had previously left unexmained. Overall I am satisfied with my work and I feel like I learned a lot while working on this project.