Transcribing qualitative data is resource-intensive. One less intensive alternative is scribing:
the documenting of comprehensive notes, including verbatim quotes by an independent …

With the solicited diary method, you ask participants to engage in diary writing, with some
guidelines, and these diaries are then used as a source of qualitative data. Solicited diaries …

In this paper, I propose redefining transcription as a significant process within qualitative
research, and as more deserving of attention and of transparency in reporting. Although …

Support for inclusion of verbatim quotations from research participants in reporting
qualitative applied social research is strengthened by evaluative tools which point to …

Transcription of interview data is a common practice in qualitative health research. However,
there has been little discussion of the techniques of transcription and the issues inherent in …

In most qualitative research studies involving the creation of interview transcriptions,
researchers seldom demonstrate much reflexivity about the transcription process, rarely …

The use of audio recordings has become a taken-for-granted approach to generating
transcripts of in-depth interviewing and group discussions. In this paper we begin by …

T he term discourse analysis (DA) has a wide reference and is often characterized as an
umbrella designator for a growing range of different theoretical approaches, analytic …

The increased use of qualitative research, especially its application in multisite studies,
requires robust data collection techniques and the documentation of research procedures …

Transcribing interview data is a time-consuming task that most qualitative researchers
dislike. Transcribing is even more difficult for people with physical limitations because …