Hi Yaprak,

This is a very good question to help strengthen collegial collaboration among fellow researchers. The thing is that if you can give further info on the specific domain on which you plan to conduct an inductive analysis, I may suggest several sources. I assume you refer to qualitative analysis of some textual data, but I really want to be sure.

Hi, thank you for your time. It is in architectural research area for a literature review right now. It is empirical or theoretical articles, so yes textual data, about architecture professional practice. Later, it will be interviews. What can help to improve the quality (originality/creativity) of analysis to better support students? The primary and secondary levels of codings/categorisations are okay let's say, but relational coding... making sense of them, more complex issues.

Zeynep Köylü is right about this being an excellent way to induce collaboration. Yaprak Hamarat I loved the part about creative, original, and innovative ways. Please don't get mad at me, either of you, those three terms are not what I associate with specialists using inductive reasoning. I dream of a day when holistic and deductive reasoning done by generalists is every bit as important as the inductive, reductionists who rule scientific publishing today. In your analysis, in the data, there are also general laws and observations to be discovered and it is more likely that no one has even looked for them. When I wrote Microbial Outsourcing of Toxins, it was because I helped other colleagues write 15 or so scientific articles on poisonous or venomous animals over a period of 20 years. Each time it turned out that the bacteria produced the toxins not the multicellular animal: from harlequin frogs to Octopuses (Octopi?), spiders and snakes. Once you have a general rule and there are many, you don't have to come up with one, but rather see places where they may apply. My advice is to keep an eye out for overall trends and utilize where they already exist, deductive reasoning to solve some of this planet's problems. Maybe you will be the Doctor Watson and Sherlock Holmes of Science..Good luck, I hoped that helped.

CGY.

Post Script when your TV-series comes out please give me a heads up;-)

An innovative way in inductive research could be to follow the general inductive approach put forward by Thomas (2006) using computer-aided qualitative data analysis software techniques as highlighted by O’Kane et al. (2021).

O’Kane, P., Smith, A., & Lerman, M. P. (2021). Building transparency and trustworthiness in inductive research through computer-aided qualitative data analysis software. Organizational Research Methods, 24(1), 104-139. https://doi.org/10.1177/1094428119865016

Article Building Transparency and Trustworthiness in Inductive Resea...

Thomas, D. R. (2006). A general inductive approach for analyzing qualitative evaluation data. American Journal of Evaluation, 27(2), 237-246. https://doi.org/10.1177/1098214005283748.

Good luck,

Thank you for your answers and your time Christopher Gerard Yukna and Mohialdeen Alotumi !