Week 10

Summary of week 10 work:

  • Continued editing the analysis
  • Wrote an outline for the discussion
  • Wrote the discussion
  • Wrote the limitations
  • Continued working on our poster and adding information and visual details to it
  • Completed a lot of editing and added final touches to the paper for the final submission
  • Worked together as a team to make the paper the best it can be and include everything we wanted to
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Week 9

Summary of week 9 work:

  • Discussed poster designs as a team and examined examples of the good/bad
  • Began designing/adding information to our research poster
  • Wrote the analysis, peer-reviewed, and edited the analysis section based on reviews
  • Created tables for the analysis
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Week 8

Summary of week 8 work:

  • Developed themes for the analysis of the data and focused in on specific analysis points
  • Created a summary of all the data in order to write an analysis
  • Extracted a large number of quotes to demonstrate each part of my analysis
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Week 7

Summary of week 7 work:

  • Focused almost all of my time on coding (based on the codebook we created as a research team) the thousands of excerpts we scraped from Reddit forums
  • Started analyzing the data and codes and finding things that were interesting/stuck out
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Week 6

Summary of week 6 work:

  • Continued editing introduction, methods, background, and abstract based on peer reviews
  • Continued to make edits to the codebook as a research team as we looked closer at the Reddit forums
  • Started coding Reddit posts and comments on Dedoose using the codebook we created
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Week 5

Summary of week 5 work:

  • Learned how to use LaTex and transferred all work
  • Continued editing introduction, methods, background, and abstract based on peer reviews
  • Discussed the newly created codebook as a research team
  • Made edits to codebook making sure to accurately represent all the data
  • Created a Dedoose account and learned about what it is
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Week 4

Summary of week 4 work:

  • Completed the first draft of the introduction
  • Continued editing the methods draft based on peer reviews
  • Finished reading through the top 25 most commented-on Reddit posts and used notes to brainstorm ideas on qualitative coding
  • Helped create the first, rough pass at the codebook with codes and definitions
  • Set up and learned about LaTex (the website/framework we are using to write our paper)
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Week 3

Summary of week 3 work:

  • Completed the outline of the introduction
  • Completed the full draft of our methods
  • Started the work and partially completed the related works draft
  • Continued to read through the top 25 most commented-on Reddit posts, looking for themes and taking notes
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Week 2

  • Completed the initial outline for the POP background, related works, and methods.
  • Continued adding citations and reading research papers related to our study.
  • Read through the top 25 most commented-on Reddit posts in each subreddit (r/PelvicOrganProlapse, r/PelvicFloor, and r/beyondthebump)
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Week 1

Completed the starting tasks for our research project including:

  • Completing the CITI and RCR exams
  • Creating an elevator pitch about what we are doing this summer
  • Creating a qualitative research checklist based on the work of Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke
  • Starting reading, analyzing, and writing summaries on POP background pubs and CHI Reproductive Health pubs
  • Overviewing the current scrape from Colin LeFevre
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