Initial Informant

Identify an initial informant who can guide your inquiries in their initial unformed stage and from whom you can get leads, i.e., key people to read and/or contact. You want to avoid finding out late in the project that there was a key person or article that you should have known about weeks ago.
It does not help to procrastinate on this as if other people's work threatens yours. It is important to connect with others in your area as part of developing your own approach.

Make contact with possible initial informant(s) and make an appointment for a meeting early on in the project, preferably before session 4. Prepare a brief verbal report on the conversation to give to your peers.

(This assignment is different from interviews, which make sense later, under phase F.)

(see PhaseB)