TY  - JOUR
AB  - This paper examines two planning tools incorporating the use of a computer‐assisted qualitative data analysis software package as applied to an actual research study. The first is the ‘NVivo Shell’. In creating a shell, the researcher is prompted to consider the role qualitative research software will take within the context of the project as a whole. Further, it acts as an initial framework to contemplate how the collected data might be organised and provides a way to organise it from the very beginning. The second tool is visual modelling. At a basic level, it can literally provide a map of the research process, which can be used to chart the progress of the research. With ever‐increasing complexity, it can be a way to visually represent a variety of ideas, concepts, sources, or beliefs and explore existing or potential relationships between and among them. The study used to contextualise their application is a doctoral dissertation (Robertson, 2007).
VL  - 8
IS  - 2
SN  - 1443-9883
DO  - 10.3316/QRJ0802081
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3316/QRJ0802081
AU  - Robertson Stuart P.
PY  - 2008
Y1  - 2008/01/01
TI  - The Qualitative Research Process as a Journey ‐ Mapping Your Course with Qualitative Research Software
T2  - Qualitative Research Journal
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 81
EP  - 90
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -