The detail and sophistication of the display can vary
depending on its function and on the amount of
information available – displays are useful at any
stage in the research process. You are free to display
the information on networks in the form of text,
codes, abbreviated notes, symbols, quotations or
any other form that helps to communicate
compactly.
Here are some different types of display described
by the way that information is ordered in them:
- Time ordered Display - A simple example of
this is a project programme giving names,
times and locations for tasks of different
kinds
- Conceptually ordered displays - Examples of
such variables are motives, attitudes,
expertise, barriers, coping strategies etc.
o They can be shown as matrices or
networks to illustrate taxonomies,
content analysis, cognitive
structures, relationships of cause and
effect or influence, decision trees etc
- Role ordered display - A role ordered matrix
will help to systematically display these
differences or can be used to investigate
whether people in the same or different
roles are unified in their views.
- Partially ordered display
- Case ordered display - This allows you to
compare cases and note their different
features according to where they appear in
the order
- Meta displays
o For example, a case ordered meta-
matrix does this by simply arranging
case matrices next to each other in
the chosen order to enable you to
simply compare the data across the
meta-matrix
Here is a brief summary of the main qualitative
methods and their characteristics.
 Interrogative insertion - This method consists
of devising and inserting implied questions into a
text for which the text provides the answers
o In this way, you can uncover the logic (or
lack of it) of the discourse and the
direction and emphasis of the argument
as made by the author.
o uncover the recipient design of the text
– how the text is written to appeal to a
particular audience and how it tries to
communicate a particular message
 PROBLEM–SOLUTION DISCOURSE - The absence
of any of these steps in the sequence will lead to
a sense of incompleteness and lack of logical
argument. Another way of presenting the
analysis is to devise a network in the form of a
decision tree that traces the problems and the
possible solutions with their implications
Rhetorical Analysis - The analysis detects credibility
markers – signals that indicate the ‘rightness’ of the
author and the ‘wrongness’ of others, such as assertions
about the ‘correct’ moral position, claims of privileged
understanding and dismissal of alternatives as
unbelievable

Narrative analysis - This form of analysis is aimed at

extracting themes, structures, interactions and
performances from stories or accounts that people use
to explain their past, their present situation or their
interpretations of events

The narrative is analysed for different aspects,

such as what is said rather than how, or conversely, the
nature of the performance during the telling, and
perhaps how the storyteller reacted with the listener