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Metaphor Analysis with MAXQDA

In this guide, I show how Metaphors can be isolated from a text in MAXQDA for further analysis. (This guide is in German) In dieser Kurzanleitung wird gezeigt, wie Metaphern in MAXqda aus einem Text isoliert werden können. Die zugrundeliegende Methode (ausführlich: Kruse/Biesel/Schmieder 2011) baut auf Rudolf Schmitts (1997; 2003) Vorschlägen zur handwerklich-analytischen Umsetzung des [...]

June 10, 2011 · Christian Schmieder · No Comments
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Handling exported data in a word processor, Part 2

QDA software such as MAXqda and OpenCode enables you to export your text as a table (click here for MAXqda and OpenCode guides). In this guide, I will show how you can use these tables in Microsoft Word in order to create worksheets for working on paper and/or in Word.

September 20, 2010 · Christian Schmieder · No Comments
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Handling exported data in a word processor, Part 1

In this guide I will demonstrate how you can create a convenient analysis worksheet from QDA software output – in this case from MAXqda 2010 and from OpenCode 3.4. The worksheet enables you to analyze your text on paper, and to organize results from an analysis group meeting clearly and conveniently.  Although this guide is [...]

September 19, 2010 · Christian Schmieder · No Comments
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Working on screen, working on paper

“I think one DOES think with one’s hands. I think that’s why a keyboard is not a good place for me to think. Some people think very well on the keyboard; and I need this kind of a fidgeting of charcoal, scissors, or the tearing of something in my hand. As if there’s a different [...]

September 19, 2010 · Christian Schmieder · No Comments
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Freeware intro: OpenCode 3.4

OpenCode is developed by Klas-Göran Sahlén at the Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine at Umeå University, Sweden. It runs under Windows 98, 2000, and XP (I have not tested it on Vista, and it seems not to run on my Windows 7 PC).  In order to run it you need to install Microsoft [...]

September 2, 2010 · Christian Schmieder · No Comments
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