So you have collected all of your records/data, and you are wondering now what.  This libguide will provide you a framework for your next steps.  To begin your analysis process, use these guiding questions:

• What is/are your lens/lenses guiding your framework?  Or, what are your orienting theories?
  • Based on the angle of what has been captured by you or the curator of this research, what are you able to see?
  • What theories of research guide your assumptions about your current project?

• What is your guiding framework for interpretation?  
  • What explanatory theories guide your work to understanding the phenomenon you are studying?

• What is your guiding framework for representing your records/data/accounts?
  • Are you utilizing a particular transcription framework?
  • Or, is there a way of mapping (tables and figures) your phenomena in and over time?
  • Is the records/data initiating how you make sense of connections?

Below are some seminal resources to help support you through those questions.

TRANSCRIPTION

• Edwards, J. A.  (2005).  The Transcription of Discourse.  In Schiffrin, D., Tannen, D., and Hamilton, H. E. (Eds.), The Handbook of Discourse Analysis (pp. 321-348). Blackwell Publishers.  https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470753460.ch18 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9780470753460.ch18

• Bucholtz, M.  (2000).  The Politics of Transcription.  Journal of Pragmatics, 32(10) 1439-1465.  https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-2166(99)00094-6

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378216699000946?ref=cra_js_challenge&fr=RR-1

REPRESENTING QUALITATIVE DATA

• Eisenhart, M.  (2006).  Representing Qualitative Data. In Green, J., Camilli, G., and Elmore, P. B. (Eds.), Handbook of Complementary Methods in Education Research (pp. 567-581).  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers. https://library.stanford.edu/all?q=Handbook+on+complementary+methods

• Clementini, E., Di Felice, P., and Hernández, D. (1997).  Qualitative representation of positional information.  Artificial Intelligence, 95(2) 317-356.  https://doi.org/10.1016/S0004-3702(97)00046-5.