Part 2
Your task will be to read the transcripts and perform what we call a content analysis. That is, you need to read the interviews over and find if there are some common themes among them. You may do this any method you choose. When you have finished the reading, and the categorization, you need to write a no more than five-page report on what you have discovered.
You’re going to write this up as you would in two sections of a research paper:
Methods (or Methodology)
Here you describe exactly how you analysed the data. What were your rules for determining categories, trends, or themes. How did you do the coding? (25 marks)
Results
Here you talk about what you actually discovered. As they used to say in Dragnet, “Just the facts.” You can’t really interpret the data, or talk about what it means, as we didn’t start this with a research question or hypotheses. (25)