Revisiting Interview Data Through a Post I-Poem

Authors

Julie E. Schrauben, Oakland UniversityFollow
S. Rebecca Leigh, Oakland UniversityFollow

Abstract

A former participant in a research study on adolescent writers was invited to read and respond to a Post-I-Poem (PIP), a poetic transcription constructed from her interview data in what is now a closed study. The purpose of this investigation was to explore what could be learned from doing a PIP in the first place and what lines of inquiry this investigation could raise for why a researcher might revisit old interview data. Analysis of one student’s PIP suggests that using poetic transcription to revisit retired transcriptions offers researchers potentially new directions for further study.

Keywords

Interviewing, Qualitative Research, Investigative Poetry, Alternative Methods, New Methods and Methodology

Author Bio(s)

Julie E. Schrauben is a Special Instructor in the Department of Reading and Language Arts at Oakland University in Rochester, MI. Her research interests include writing, poetry inquiry, and author's craft. Correspondence regarding this article can be addressed directly to: jearends@oakland.edu.

S. Rebecca Leigh is an associate professor in the Department of Reading and Language Arts at Oakland University in Rochester, MI. Her research interests include multiple ways of knowing, writing, teacher and doctoral education. Her current research examines how access to art serves as a pathway to literacy learning and its impact on students as writers. Correspondence regarding this article can also be addressed directly to: leigh23@oakland.edu.

Publication Date

8-25-2019

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

DOI

10.46743/2160-3715/2019.3763

Recommended APA Citation

Schrauben, J. E., & Leigh, S. R. (2019). Revisiting Interview Data Through a Post I-Poem. The Qualitative Report, 24(8), 2048-2058. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2019.3763