From: Susanne Friese <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 30 November 1999 15:58
Subject: Re: NVIVO, mixing transcribing and coding > desaster programmed
>Tom Richards wrote:
>
>> In fact, a recommended way to work in NVivo is to write up your documents
in
>> an NVivo Document Browser, and code them as you write them up
>> ("edit-while-you-code" technique). Of course, a Document Browser does not
>> have a spelling checker, so if that is a sine qua non of writing up a
>> document, you will have to do it the old way: write it up first in a word
>> processor, then import the WP's TXT or RTF file. But that seems like a
heavy
>> personal price to pay just to use a spell checker.
>
>I can't really see why this is a *heavy* price to pay. It takes just a
second to
>save a document as for example an RTF document and importing it into Nvivo
also
>does not take long. There will often be cases where you get data files from
>transcribers who have typed them in Word in any case and you have to go
throught
>this procedure.
>
>This "edit-while-you-code" technique, I suppose, is something that is
related to
>Nvivo. Can you or any person who has worked in that way elaborate on this
method
>a bit more? What are its advantages or disadvantages, when would you use
it,
>etc.
Well to jump in and contextualise, I think Tom was referring specifically to
the enquiry made earlier by someone who I know DOES work in that way. She
was trying to overcome what she saw as a shortcoming - the fact that NV
hasn't got a spell checker. I don't think he was saying that preparing
documents in Word completely, per se, was a heavy price to pay.
I am sure Fatemeh won't mind me saying that before using a qual-package, she
used to use Word to assist her coding procedure - and used colour coding &
other visual markings to 'code' in some way WHILE she was transcribing. One
of the reasons she chose NV - was because the edit facility gave her the
option of combining this method of treating her data with the other methods
of coding her work.
I have taught another researcher - who had permission to make notes on very
sensitive and confidential data at various sites; - the data itself, she was
not allowed to transcribe, copy or take away. She felt that being able to
note-take and code/analyse directly into a CAQDAS software package while on
site - woudl increase her long term contact with what she saw, and cut
short her stages of work -i.e. transferral of notes and analysis from Word
to the software (always supposing that eventually she woudl still have felt
the need to go through this secondary stage of analysis)
So... this IS one way of working -, Fatemeh's is another. Surely the ability
to edit data after coding starts -or create data files inside the CAQDAS
software is something several developers are workign towards anyway?
regards
Ann Lewins
Ann Lewins
Resource Officer, CAQDAS Networking Project
Dept of Sociology
University of Surrey
GUILDFORD GU2 5XH
email: [log in to unmask]
CAQDAS web site: http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/caqdas/
Tel +44 (0)1 483 259 455
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