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Do you have to record interviews for your disseration?

Do interviews as part of your dissertation have to be tape recorded?
then have trancipts typed up

Or can you just take notes on paper and then type them up and add them as appendices without having a word for word transcript

Got to do some tomorow so i'm wondering

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I would recommend recording them - your notes won't produce anything like the level of accuracy a recording will and if you are quoting from interviews, you need to do so verbatim. There really are a number of definite advantages to tape recording: you can listen to them over again which could potentially help if you detect changes in tone of voice and you may also not take note of something that later emerges as being clearly important for your work.

So yes, tape the interviews.
:ditto:

I was recommended to do just that when doing some interviews for my uni work in the second year. Plus, the mini recorders (can't remember exactly what you call them now :confused:) you can use aren't that pricey.

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