{"id":890,"date":"2012-02-27T13:14:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T20:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/?p=890"},"modified":"2012-02-27T13:17:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T20:17:53","slug":"data-analysis-when-it-starts-to-make-sense-also-known-as-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/?p=890","title":{"rendered":"Data analysis: When it starts to make sense\u2014also known as “breakthrough”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, that title says what I want it to say. I\u2019m hoping that by sharing this in my blog, it provides some hope for doctoral students groping through the dark depths of their data.<\/p>\n

\"Urquhart<\/a><\/p>\n

Admittedly, I have been procrastinating somewhat\u2014a few months, actually. I have done the initial coding of my transcripts using discourse analysis techniques derived from the work of Gee (2010), Potter (1996), and some other significant authors. Then, I did some additional coding for some salient and potential phenomenographic categories that I saw emerging\u2014some expected; some not so expected. I exported from Atlas-TI quotes according to the code categories. I have read through all of them in Word, highlighting and jotting down additional notes in on the pages themselves and in my extremely messy journal. I have plodded along in faith that something would one day make sense, and with an unspoken knowing that these steps would lead me to that place.<\/p>\n

As a result of this seemingly blind journey, I started seeing categories of description emerge. And, I am getting a sense for the variation in experience associated with the categories of description.<\/p>\n

During my last meeting with my supervisor in which she shared some newly discovered ideas from another student\u2019s viva, I crossed my most profoundly deep threshold of understanding. I am now coding for some additional code-perspectives. And, I can see how discourse analysis strongly supports the study of liminality–sub-liminality, in particular. My supervisor and I discussed the idea of discourses and sub-liminality (hyphenated spelling is intended), and I found the relevant literature by the threshold-concept-gurus in my notes. (Thank gawd for the notes I took on my resources\u2014invaluable.) Today, it feels as if it is just coming together.<\/p>\n

At the time of writing this, I was in one of my favourite, sunny coffee-spots, and I was starting to code with these new codes. Suddenly, I saw significant meaning and patterns. I could see the connection between discourse analysis, threshold concepts, Harr\u00e9\u2019s Vygotsky cycle, and my data emerging as if it is the most natural thing in the world. Whoa. Breakthrough. Now, I must find more time to code.<\/p>\n

Of course, my experience in writing my master\u2019s thesis had taught me to expect these moments of lucidity to be punctuated with moments of feeling overwhelming out-of-control. Alas, these are natural ripples in the pond. Keep going.<\/p>\n

\u00a0References:<\/h3>\n

Edwards, D. (1997). Discourse and Cognition<\/em> (p. 368). London, UK: Sage Publications, Inc.<\/p>\n

Gee, J. P. (2011). An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method<\/em> (3rd ed., p. 224). New York, NY: Routledge.<\/p>\n

Potter, J. (1996). Representing reality<\/em> (p. 265). London, UK: Sage Publications Ltd.<\/p>\n

Wooffitt, R. (1992). Telling tales of the unexpected: The organization of factual discourse<\/em> (p. 217). Hertfordshire, UK: Harverster Wheatsheaf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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