Question: Esme is interested in the personal experiences of first-year medical students and plans an ethnographic study, in which she'll collect observational field notes, extensive interview data, and diaries from the participants. For her analysis, she plans to begin by developing a start list. In other words, Esme will:
apply her initial coding scheme to a subset of her data.
divide the data into general but meaningful chunks before beginning more detailed analysis.
make a list of categories and themes derived directly from the research problem.
briefly review the data in search of topics or themes that pop out right away.