Analyticic Ideas and Inferences. Put all of them into the field notes . The only proviso about putting them in is to be sure to mark them off as being analytic ideas and inferences. When one eventually withdraws from the setting and concentrates upon performing analysis he should thus have more than only raw field material. The period of concerted analysis is greatly facilitated if during the field work itself one is also assembling a background, a foundation of possible lines of analysis and interpretation.
Analytic ideas are likely to be of three varieties.
Although the topic could not carry the entire analysis, here seems to be developing a set of materials in the field notes that hang together in the following way . . . Here is a neat little thing that will perhaps work out in this way . . . One is very likely to have many more of these memos on analytic directions included in his field notes than he will ever include in the final report. But, by building a foundation of memos and tentative pieces of and directions for analysis, the analytic period will be much less traumatic. Analysis becomes a matter of selecting from and working out analytic themes that already exist.