After reading chapter 9 on "Writing a Qualitative Study," I saw things from all of the writing methods that I would be able to use in the writing of my study. 

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Choosing an article from the book was difficult because Narrative, Phenomenological, Grounded Theory and Ethnographic structures all appealed to me. 

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In the end I chose to read the grounded theory article, since I closely identify with not really having everything planned out and in place during the process of research. I entered the research process with ideas and themes in mind, but have let the data collection help lead the way and help focus my research.

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As I work toward editing the structure of my paper, and as I work through the mounds of data I have collected during the day to day of my job, the themes will no doubt narrow down,

 

While considering my narrative structure, I hope to find a way to go back and forth in time, include dialogue and personal storytelling. I could tell the story of this project from beginning to now, through the eyes of myself, the partners, the students and community stake-holders. I could tell the story chronologically or through the lens of the main themes I have initially brought forth; Space, Time, Assessment and Curriculum.

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I want to write in the first person, use realist tales, and confessional tales. I want to include writing devices like metaphors, synecdoches, and personal storytelling. 

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During the presentation of Data I am thinking of presenting the data by organizing it by theme, Space, Time Assessment and Curriculum. In a way this serves a purpose to the work we are doing as a group in school as we work to improve the model.

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I want to give an ethnographer's "Thick" description when I answer the questions "What is going on here?," when I describe the culture of the school and when I interpret the data. 

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I don't know what epiphany, large or small I have to offer the paper. In some ways I have epiphanies every day, so I may be jaded in the value of my thoughts. I'm sure that in depth analysis of the data will lead me somewhere. By organizing themes, concepts and statements I will be able to organize 

 

I hope to pull together an acceptable literature review, and to weave in the work of others in a way where zooming in and zooming out seems like a natural progressive flow of ideas. I hope to be able to find connections to the work I'm doing and to connect it to the future of work in our field of art education, and the work of education in general.

 

I have taken some suggestions of how to use quotes, different ways to make a compelling conclusion and using data visualization as a tool to summarize findings, an idea that I'm passionate about since a lot of my work with students seems to be work on infographics.

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I'm unsure if it is suggested to include the process of open coding and axial coding in the paper, of if during the methodology section you just mention briefly how you go about organizing and analyzing data, and merely mentioning "open coding, and axial coding" is sufficient.

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Though I'm focusing on one project, it's impossible to disconnect these student's experience from the general experience of the school's students. So part case study, part cultural study and part auto-ethnographic. I just can't narrow it down to one clean and tidy structure.