Trascription process

Image retrieved from Google images on October, 19, 2010

I finished trascribing last Monday and it took forever (four months). It was an arduos process in which I tried to be as accurate as possible to what students actually said. It is a pity that I did some transcriptions of students who either dropped out or entered the course and did not make the final analysis group since I consider that I wasted some precious time there especially during the vacation time. I also should have started transcribing at the very beginning of vacation time in order to start coding when we started the semester. I wish I would had know at the end of last semester what Burns (2010) stated about starting categorizing as soon as you collect the data and I did not suspect that transcribing took so long. I have that ugly feeling that tells me I will have to take another semester in order to finish my project.