Transforming Transcripts Into Stories: A Multimethod Approach to Narrative Analysis
Stories are essential realities from our past and present. As the primary sources of data in narrative research, interview transcripts play an essential role in giving meaning to the personal stories of research participants. The pragmatic narratives found in transcripts represent human experience a...
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| description | Stories are essential realities from our past and present. As the primary sources of data in narrative research, interview transcripts play an essential role in giving meaning to the personal stories of research participants. The pragmatic narratives found in transcripts represent human experience as it unfolds. Analyzing the narratives found in interview transcripts thus moves beyond providing descriptions and thematic developments as found in most qualitative studies. Crafting stories from interview transcripts involves a complex set of analytic processes. Building on the first author's personal experience in working on a doctoral thesis employing narrative inquiry, this article presents a multimethod restorying framework to narrative analysis. A step-by-step progression within the framework includes choosing interview participants, transcribing interviews, familiarizing oneself with the transcripts (elements of holistic-content reading), chronologically plotting (elements of the story), use of follow-up interviews as a way to collaborate (an important procedure in narrative inquiry), and developing the story through structural analysis. It is hoped that this article will encourage other researchers embarking on narrative analysis to become creative in presenting participants’ lived experiences through meaningful, collaborative strategies. This article demonstrates the fluidity of narrative analysis and emphasizes that there is no single procedure to be followed in attempting to create stories from interview transcripts. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-47933f58c73e48a6bb1884d8b08c43b62022-12-21T18:57:37ZengSAGE PublishingInternational Journal of Qualitative Methods1609-40692019-06-011810.1177/1609406919856797Transforming Transcripts Into Stories: A Multimethod Approach to Narrative AnalysisAishath Nasheeda0Haslinda Binti Abdullah1Steven Eric Krauss2Nobaya Binti Ahmed3 Faculty of Human Ecology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia Faculty of Human Ecology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia Department of Professional Development and Continuing Education, Faculty of Educational Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia Faculty of Human Ecology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, MalaysiaStories are essential realities from our past and present. As the primary sources of data in narrative research, interview transcripts play an essential role in giving meaning to the personal stories of research participants. The pragmatic narratives found in transcripts represent human experience as it unfolds. Analyzing the narratives found in interview transcripts thus moves beyond providing descriptions and thematic developments as found in most qualitative studies. Crafting stories from interview transcripts involves a complex set of analytic processes. Building on the first author's personal experience in working on a doctoral thesis employing narrative inquiry, this article presents a multimethod restorying framework to narrative analysis. A step-by-step progression within the framework includes choosing interview participants, transcribing interviews, familiarizing oneself with the transcripts (elements of holistic-content reading), chronologically plotting (elements of the story), use of follow-up interviews as a way to collaborate (an important procedure in narrative inquiry), and developing the story through structural analysis. It is hoped that this article will encourage other researchers embarking on narrative analysis to become creative in presenting participants’ lived experiences through meaningful, collaborative strategies. This article demonstrates the fluidity of narrative analysis and emphasizes that there is no single procedure to be followed in attempting to create stories from interview transcripts.https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406919856797 |
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| title | Transforming Transcripts Into Stories: A Multimethod Approach to Narrative Analysis |
| title_full | Transforming Transcripts Into Stories: A Multimethod Approach to Narrative Analysis |
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