Steps involved in memo writing

Memo-writing helps you to: 4

• Stop and think about your data

• Treat qualitative codes as categories to analyze

• Develop your writer's voice and writing rhythm

• Spark ideas to check out in the field setting

• Avoid forcing your data into extant concepts and theories

• Develop fresh ideas, create new concepts, and find novel relationships

• Demonstrate connections between categories (e.g. empirical events and social structures, larger groups and the individual, espoused beliefs and actions)

• Discover gaps in your data collection

• Link data-gathering with data analysis and report-writing

• Build whole sections of papers and chapters

• Keep involved in research and writing

• Increase your confidence and competence.

Steps involved in memo writing