TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bazeley,Patricia
AU  - Richards,Lyn
TI  - The NVivo qualitative project book
SN  - 0761969993
AV  - H61.3 .B39 2000
PY  - 2000///
CY  - London, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
PB  - SAGE Publications
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Data processing
KW  - Qualitative research
KW  - Methodology
N1  - Includes index; Table Of Contents; Preface; Introduction: The book and the software; About this book; About NVivo; How can NVivo be used with this book?; What other help is there?; Making a start; Where to start?; Installing and calling NVivo; Starting a project; First steps; Recording your initial thoughts; Linking to other data; Modeling your preliminary ideas; Making it safe; Taking stock; First coding; Nodes out of data; Coding ``up'' from your project journal; Workingt with retrievals; More Free Nodes; Viewing coding; Exploring nodes; Nodes in models; Saving your project; Taking Stock; Making data; Early data documents; Edit or import?; Importing a document; Proxy documents; Attributes and values; Links to Memos (and other document); Creating and using memos; Linking from the text to an existing document; Linking a new memo; Taking stock; Working with data; Reflecting and recording ideas; Annotating the text; Memoing detail; Coding and what it does; Thinking about coding; Approaches to coding; Coding in NVivo; Coding at new nodes; Coding at existing nodes; Checking Coding; Coding-on from a node; Coding a proxy document; Avoiding pitfalls in coding; Reflections on a document; Making a text report of your document; Reflecting in a model; Taking stock; Shaping your project; Creating more documents; Nodes in Trees; Coding with Tree Nodes; Moving nodes; Sets of documents; Using Sets to direct a Search; Sets of nodes; Cases shaped in nodes; Taking stock; Emerging'' theory?; What are you aiming for?; How will you know if you get there?; Theory emergence and theory construction; Exploration of categories; Working in a node; Naming and describing; A web of ideas; Reflecting in a memo about a node; Creating node links; Extract Nodes; Category development---focusing and extending; Discriminating and combining categories; Reviewing categories and seeking associations; Modeling relationships; Linking a model to a document; Taking Stock; Ordering concepts; Thinking trees; Sorting nodes; From ``sorts'' to structure; Creating Tree Nodes; Shifting Free Nodes into Trees; Rearranging an index tree; Using structure; Using trees while coding; Using trees to explore with searches; Taking stock; Moving faster; Batching in'' multiple documents; Handling data from multiple sources; Faster coding; Coding with Text Search; Combining text other searches; Autocoding by section; Faster attributes; Faster Sets; Faster cases; Importing Attributes for Case Nodes; Faster searches; Using attributes to make comparisons; Examining the interaction of attributes; Taking Stock; Getting there; Aiming for and achieving research goals; Categories and theory; The project and its purposes; Are your concepts good enough?; Concept clarification; Conceptual framework review; Review the performance of nodes; Concept clarification using searches; Clustering concepts; Exploring and validating patterns; What is going on here?; Seeking associations; Under what conditions...?; Investigating exceptions; Fine reading, detailed understanding; Insight, surprise and arrival; Creating surprises; Using (rather than losing) surprises; When is an ``Aha'' a final chapter?; Showing and Telling; Making reports; What next to learn about Nvivo?; Appendix: Preparing Data; Preparing a text document for import into NVivo; Making notes or transcriptions; Rich text documents; Preparing open-ended survey responses; Preparing a plain text document---with style; Preparing data for attribute import; Index
N2  - Accompanying CD-ROM contains demonstration software with data to help create a project about researchers and researching, and with multiple stages arranged sequentially in the development of a real project
ER  -