How To Code

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How To Code

• Pia DiPaola
• Psy 360L
• Wells College
• 2006

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First step

• Read over all of your
• MEMOS
• INTERVIEWS
• OBSERVATIONS
• CONCEPT MAPS

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Second Step

• Open up WORD
• Create a list of themes that came up while you
  were reading. For example My interviewees
  talked a lot about taking action, being censored,
  Friendships, Laws that effect them, Improvements
  that should be made, etc.
• My Codes would then be things like
• Censorship (brown)
• Action (yellow)
• Friendship (green)
• Laws (blue)
• Improvements (red)
• Assign each code its own color (preferably
  different than the others)
• This is a general list that WILL change, so think
  of it as a draft.

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Working from Computer/Folder

• Pros of each
• Cons of each
• This step is personal preference

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Computer

• Open all files
• Create a word file for each of your codes
• When you read through your files if you see
  anything having to do with your code You
  HIGHLIGHT IT the color you designated that code
  to be!
• Copy and paste specific information from your
  files onto the specific code WORD file you just
  made.

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Folder

• Read through your files then whenever you see an
  item having to do with a code underline it with
  colored pencil.
• After you have completed all the items relevant
  in your folder create WORD documents with each
  code as a title.
• Start copying and pasting the information onto
  the computer. Or start typing it in.
• Make sure to keep track of where you are in your
  folder.

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Citing

• You must site each reference to your work. You
  do this by adding ()s and the following
  information
• The individuals research name NOT THEIR REAL
  ONE!
• Where you got the information interview, memo,
  observation, etc.
• What page you can find the quote on.
• (Kelly, interview 1, p. 4)
• (PD, Memo 6, p. 2)

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IMPORTANT

• YOU MUST CHOOSE ONE CODE FOR EACH BIT OF
  INFORMATION.
• In other words
• You cant put the same quote from an interview in
  two different code sheets.
• You have to choose only one.

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Data Displays

• How do your codes interact with eachother.
• Renes Example
• Her codes included such items as treatment,
  success, failure, medication, depression, guilt,
  etc.
• She believes that if you succeed you are rewarded
  with medication. However if you fail you only
  get guilt, depression, and a few other things.
• Her data displays might look like this

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Success
Medication
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Data Displays should have one per page/slide
Failure
Medication
Failure
Guilt
Depression
Failure
Guilt
Depression
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Word Documents

• Click on one of your code WORD documents
• Edit Select all
• Copy
• Paste onto ppoint as slide
• Each code should have one slide.

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For this week

• List of Codes
• Data Displays
• Word documents of Codes pasted onto ppoint