Hello Everyone,
I would love to get your professional and academic opinion about a way I have thought to write in the findings of a qualitative review the quotes of the participants. There are two approaches.
A. As suggested by King "When it comes to presenting quotes to support your analysis, in a paper, dissertation or report, we would accept that it is sometimes appropriate to carry out minor tidying up in order to aid comprehension" King, Nigel. Interviews in Qualitative Research SAGE. Kindle Edition. " The majority of researchers have used the original sentences, citing either all the interviewed or the most representative ones.
Others used a table saying " the quotes represent the synthesis of the researcher" and adding the number of people belonging to that idea at the end of the quote.
Due to the limited space in my work, cause of 18 interviews, I thought that 1. in the body of the paper I could allocate the quotes as my synthesis 2. allocate in an appendix a table with themes and codes reporting the full ideas of the people with the links to the synthesis.
In your opinion can this approach be valid and acceptable?
Thank you for your help.
In the Results section, the themes you have located typically represent the basis for presenting those results. I generally think of the themes as forming an outline, so that each major theme is a heading in the Results section. Each of those themes is then matched to carefully selected quotes that help the reader understand the content of that theme.
If you are so pressed for space that you cannot follow that format, then you can use a table that presents the themes as rows, accompanied by one or two illustrative quotations.
In general, I would not advocate counting themes or quotations. The value of a theme is the extent to which it helps explain what was important in the data, and not the literal times that it was mentioned.
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