Draft Analysis Section of Methodology
Describe how you will analyze your data.
- Start by writing your research question at the top of your post. If your research question is quantitative, include your hypothesis or hypotheses.
Qualitative Analysis
For qualitative studies, use a form of analysis that relies on coding, commonly called thematic analysis. This strategy allows you to sort through the words, observations, phrases, and concepts of transcribed narrative data. The goal is to identify the categories of meaning and the themes that emerge across transcripts, documents, and data forms, and that support specific interpretations of meaning offered by participants. Use examples to describe how you will interpret narrative data.
It is helpful to address aspects of trustworthiness, dependability, transferability, credibility, authenticity, confirmability, rigor, triangulation, member checking, and other considerations associated with scientific merit in qualitative research as appropriate to the research question.
