ABSTRACT
A person's understanding and mastery of an activity is best increased by actually engaging in that activity rather than by simply reading about it. As is rightly opined in folk wisdom, "practice makes perfect". The dissection suggested in this chapter is formulated as a set of questions to ask and to answer in the process of reading and re-reading a report and then reflecting on it. The answers to some questions will be found in one or just a few places in the report, but others require looking back over the document as a whole and assessing its overall qualities. Some data involve much more complicated social relations and personal matters than do others. If interviewing or observational data were used, the following questions are especially pertinent, although at least some of these questions arise with other kinds of data as well.
