Richness of a code or story is defined by Ellen Barton as a story or code containing a rich feature which is a feature that illucidates the relation between a piece of text, or interview, and its surrounding context. Rich features have to appear frequently and have a strong relationship to the text's overall meaning.

Richness of a Code or Story

Category construction focuses specifically on identifying, defining, and refining categories or themes that help make sense of complex qualitative data like interviews, field notes, or documents. Often this refining is iterative to narrow in on particular themes.

To code interviews for the Disabled Academics Study (DAS), the research team used grounded theory, discourse analysis, and category construction.

Interview Coding in Disabled Academics Study

Saldana, Johnny. 2016. The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers

- Grounded theory is a research tool that enables you to seek out and conceptualize the latent social patterns and structures of your area of interest through the process of constant comparison.
- Use an inductive approach where you make broad generalizations from specific obersrvations
- The generalizations will help suggest where to go next to collect data and which, more-focused, questions to ask

What is Grounded Theory?

Discourse Analysis is a form of quantitative data analysis that is based around the assumptions that all communication, whether written, spoken, signed, etc., has a goal and that we can analyze communication to find both the goal of that communication and how whether and how the goal is achieved is shaped by and shaping the socio-political context around it.

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