case study method - Steve Moore

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When first looking at a case, the amount of information displayed may be overwhelming. The Case Study Method is a great way to erase the useless information and get to the point of the story. A quick read through is what I would use to get an overall understanding of the case at hand. I can usually come up with an assumption of what the case will be about from reading the case introduction at the very beginning. The Case Study Method is, to me, a technique used to organize and locate main points throughout a case.

The first step to breaking down a case would be to funnel through the case and locate main points. When locating the main points I like to highlight those areas and maybe write a side note if needed. The side notes would serve good purpose when the case study needed to be written. Depending on the individual, highlighting and side notes can be done in two different steps. My next step would be to take all the hightlighted information and copy it down onto a seperate sheet of paper and add other notes to what I already jotted down. That step does not need to be done, again depends on the individual. The concluding step would be to pull everything together and build the case study from the beginning to end with the notes that you have taken.