Andrew

Please do not work on this assignment at home. Wait until I give you instructions in class during my presentation on Thursday. Thank you.

**Memo 1** 1 **Example of a Memo Showing Open Data Exploration** **April 4, 1997** **Properties and Dimensions of the Pain Experience** (Field note excerpt) //The pain in my hands from arthritis is really bad in damp cold weather.// //I wake up with it in the morning and it lasts throughout the day.I hate to take// //medication because of all the possible side effects so the only time it seems to// //get better is at night when I am warm in bed and under the covers. (Quote// //from interview with subject #1,p.1 of field notes.)// In my memo I write: This woman is describing her “pain experience,” that is, how she experi- ences pain and its relief. The description is from her perspective, reflects her experience, and not any objective measure of pain. We can see in her descrip- tion that she expresses the properties of “intensity,” “location,” and “duration” of her pain. We note that “pain relief” for her comes from warmth and at night and that she is reluctant to take any medication. When she says that the pain is “really bad” at times she is giving us a dimension of the property of “pain intensity.” The “location” of the pain, she tells us, is in her hands and it is of “long” duration lasting throughout the day. “Pain relief” is possible “under conditions of warmth.” The possible use of medication is dismissed at least at this point in her “pain trajectory.” All of the properties of the pain including its management and relief are part of her “pain experience,” which of course is very individualized. (End of memo)

Elaborating the paradigm: the relationships between conditions, actions/interactions, and consequences. This appears to be a good memo as they state relationships between the particpants comments and qualifier her remarks.