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This chapter focuses on how to write up the methodological procedures of an interview study. It considers both standard formats for writing-up methodological procedures and non-traditional formats in which methodological descriptions are often integrated into the more general narrative of the text. The chapter first provides an overview of the most common elements that comprise interview reports, such as dissertations, journal articles, or monographs. It then presents three different ways of conceiving of the methods section—as a prelude to the analysis and findings, as a postscript, and as embedded in the interpretation itself. It concludes with reflections on how to deal with the idea that, in qualitative interview research, the researcher is the most important “methodological instrument.”
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“[I]t is a truism to note that all transcription is in some sense interpretation …” (Cook, 1990, p.12)
In the first post (please read!) of this 2 part series on how to transcribe an interview for dissertation, I gave you on overview of the transcription process, equipment you’ll need, 3 ways to transcribe your interviews and made a few remarks on accuracy of the transcripts, and recording high quality interviews (check out this post on choosing a voice recorder for your data collection).
In this second and final post in this series on how to transcribe academic interviews for dissertation I get into the minutia of transcription. How do you transcribe? What are the different ways you can transcribe your thesis interviews (with examples)?
Speaker identification.
How do you transcribe, what do you do when you are transcribing? Things you need to think about as you transcribe are first the names of respondents. It is useful to just use a standard format for entering the names. I suggested some of them here.
You can put the person’s actual name and perhaps the initials letter of their surnames. So for Mary Clark, you can write Mary C on your transcript. Learn to be consistent, every time Mary talks you have the same letters in front of those speech. You can also identify the interviewee simply as “Interviewee” or “Respondent” or even “Resp”. Again be consistent.
For the interviewer you might have “I” for interviewer or IV, or INT or Intvr. You can put your name on it if you like, G for Gandalf and so on. But be consistent, so you use the same name all the time on the transcript to identify when the interviewer speaks.
At weloty we use Intvr: and Resp: as our default speaker identifiers.
You also need to think about the formatting of the speaker designation. The most common approach is have the name/identifier, and then you have the colon, and then indented text. In other cases some transcribers put the name of the speaker on a separate line. So there will be an identifier and then the next line the speech starts. You might also want to bold or italize the interviewer or the interviewee to make it easier for you to identify who is speaking. Here are some examples:
Jane= interviewer, Paul =interviewee
Tell me how you came to be a transcriber?
Well, it’s a funny story, I started transcribing when I was…
Intvr: Oh
Resp: Yes, and they keep referring their fellow students to my transcription site.
Intvr: Last question, what do you find to be the most challenging part when transcribing interviews?
Resp: That’s a difficult one. Most of the time it’s the audio quality of the interview that is..
Now, which format you use might depend on what software you plan to use for analysis. There are different standards for different kinds of software. So you think need to think about that. For instance, Atlas-ti or Nvivo require that their transcripts be formatted differently. But again read the manuals that come with the software. That there was no single best way of doing it, one program wants it done one way, one program another way. And some QDAs will accept different formats than others.
Anonymization of your transcripts is very important. As far as possible make sure that if anything is published when you do the research the name should be anonymized so that the names of people and contextual names like the organizations they work for, the towns they work in and so on, all of those are anonymized.
But you will need to keep the original names themselves. It’s common practice to keep the names on the transcripts during the analysis. So I have the original data with the original names on it. But when it is published then it gets anonymized at that stage.
On the other hand you might decide it is better anonymize it right from the start. The problem with that is you lose the context in your mind. For instance if you anonymized Mary to you respondent 2 or, June or something like that, so you have to remember June was actually Mary or respondent 2 was Mary.
Makes it slightly harder for you to think about what you are doing and what you can remember you have used there. So, that is why I prefer to keep it un-anonymised until the last minute, which you will need to do that eventually. But remember to publish only anonymized versions.
Checking for accuracy. What if you can’t hear things? Then use a standard thing like this square brackets 3 dots square brackets […], to indicate something missing. Something was said, but none of us can work out, the typist can’t, I can’t, we can’t work out what was said, just can’t remember it. So it is missing.
Other possibilities, [bribery?] Did the person actually say bribery? I am not really sure. So put it is in square brackets put question mark, just to indicate that you are not quite sure about what is being said. In this instances it might also be really helpful to insert timestamps. So […][00:05:34] to clearly indicate where the missing part is in the audio or [bribery?] [00:08:32].
Also printing with wider margins, because you are going to be writing on things. The idea is that when you start to code and work with this material you do write on it a lot. So double spacing or a spacing and a half, between the lines and wide margins to write in on the side of the page are really helpful, because you need space to write in those notes. You don’t always have to use them all the time. But you know some bits will be very detailed and lots of lines, lots of comments on the side, so leave space for them.
Structure the transcripts. Two things I want to talk about here, 1) is to do with the software and a lot of these things depend on what software you are using. Some of it you simply do it consistently, so if you have got a structured questionnaire, where everybody gets asked the same questions, then make sure you use something like Q1, Q2 and the question perhaps, and always using exactly the same wording on everyone’s transcripts. So you can always be consistent about how do you find things, and how you search for things.
If you are going to use NVivo, put those questions headings in a heading style. Very similar to styles in Word. So NVivo uses the same style as word. So putting the Heading 1 style, when you upload the transcripts into NVivo, you could automatically code those headings as codes in the programs. Please contact us to discuss your NVivo transcription requirements, so we can decide what the best fit is for you.
Section format is another issue particularly if you are doing NVivo or Atlas-ti. Some software allow some use of automatic coding. For instance, I’ve formatted transcripts so that there were 2 kinds of returns between the speeches.
The speech was always the lawyer asking a question, and the witness replied. I had 2 returns, then the lawyer asking the questions, then a single return, then the witness replying and then 2 returns. I did that because the software the client was using automatically assign each of those speakers interchanges as a paragraph.
So again it needs reading the computer manuals to check, what is going on and how you can then set things up for what you need.
I talked a little about this in Part 1 of this series, but let’s have a deeper discussion about the styles of transcription.
The problem is people don’t speak in whole sentences. They repeat themselves, they hesitate, they stutter, they talk in very long sentences. There are no fullstops in speech. They use contractions like don’t, coz, I’m and so on. And they use filler words as they hesitate, you know, I mean, err, mmh and so on, all sorts of different sounds.
The question is do you transcribe all those things that people do?
Do you spend time with all these issues, repetitions, hesitations and so on?
Now for some purposes you do do that. If you are doing conversation analysis then this is the kind of detail you need to transcribe.
So the question is how much of the interview interaction do we want to capture? I think there are 3 different ways of transcribing: what I call the intelligent verbatim approach, the (strict) verbatim approach, and finally Discourse or the Conversation Analysis, CA.
Deciding which approach to use largely depends on your research questions and the intent of the study. As an important step in data management and analysis, the process of thesis transcription must be congruent with the methodological design and theoretical underpinnings of each investigation.
Let me show you some examples of each of these approaches.
To begin with the intelligent verbatim approach. Now, I plan to pen Here’s a detailed guide on intelligent verbatim transcription . so keep your eyes peeled out for it .
Frank: True, it’s going to be the greatest in the history of the world.
Jon: I’d expect no less. I think it will put an end to the conflict in the Middle East, I mean quite possibly.
Frank: That’s true.
Jon: No, no I’m confusing that with a nuclear bomb. I’m sorry, yours is not going to bomb. Yours is actually going to do really well. But let’s share some ideas I want to run by you and then if I can get some information from you it’s going to help a whole lot.
This is snippet from a interview transcript between Jon and Frank. The purpose of the interview was to gather information on a product that’s being launched. So the intelligent verbatim approach works really well in this particular case. It reads fairly easily and from the transcript you can quickly get the information you need. This type of transcription is perfect for researchers using the grounded approach or analyzing for themes and categories.
I have written a couple of detailed posts on verbatim transcription. The first is a general overview of verbatim transcription and the other a detailed verbatim transcription guide for psychotherapy interviews and sessions . Please refer to those posts for a more detailed guide on how to create verbatim transcripts. A short example.
Frank: Oh true, it’s going to be the greatest in the history of the world.
Jon: I I I would expect no less. I think it will put an end to um to the conflict in the Middle East I mean quite possibly.
Frank: [CT] That’s true.
Jon: No, no way I’m I’m I’m confusing that with a nuclear bomb. I’m sorry, that’s that’s, yours is not going to bomb. Yours is actually gonna do really well. But ah [chuckles] let’s ah let’s share some, I guess I guess some ideas I wanna run by you and then if we can talk through um, if I can get some um information from you it’s gonna help a whole lot.
Same interview, different transcript. As you can see, there’s more detail of the interview interaction in the verbatim transcript as opposed to the intelligent verbatim transcript. Verbatim transcripts are great if you interested in the dynamics of the interview.
Conversation analysis (CA) is a “unique” (ten HAVE 1990) form of qualitative social research. Books have been written about this approach to transcription = there is no enough space on this blog for me to adequately cover conversational transcription convections. But, I’ll provide you with a few references that you can use. Jefferson, Gail (1985). ‘An exercise in the transcription and analysis of laughter’ is a great starting point and a valuable entry point into learning more about the Jeffersonian CA transcription notation. I’d also recommend Ochs, Elinor (1979) ‘Transcription as theory’. Even for us non-discourse analysis researchers, it’s a great read. And for a critique: Ashmore and Reed (2000) Innocence and Nostalgia in Conversation Analysis.
Here is an image of a discourse analysis transcript. There are many symbols used conversational analysis transcription and creating an appendix of what each symbol denotes is the first thing you do before you begin transcription.
If you are going to use a conversation analysis approach you do need this kind of level of transcription of the data. But for most of us this is not relevant, even if you are doing discourse analysis, this is not relevant. Verbatim approach should get you what you want.
As you transcribe interviews it is useful to have with them information about the interview itself, or about the case if there are separate interviews perhaps. So it is common to have a document headers sheet with the data. Again if you are doing it in software, then you keep it in a certain place. In NVivo document properties is a place where you keep this information.
Typically things you would have here are, choose the names. If you anonymize the interviewee’s name, use this cover sheet or document header sheet keep the pseudonym, you can separate it after the interview if you want to.
You can also add information about location, time, topic and circumstance, and add your interview notes. Also include the name of the interview, if you are in a team of people it might be useful to name who is interviewing the person.
If you are taking field notes as well, and I certainly would advice that if you are doing interviews to take notes as well recording the interview, you take notes about important things that you think about, or things that happen, or ideas that occur to you as you interview the people. So again link it or have the name of the document on the cover sheet.
Here’s a sample dissertation interview cover page you can use.
Interviewee: [Name of interviewee] [Pseudonym]
Interviewer: [Name of interviewer]
Date and Time: [mm/dd/yyyy][00:00]
Location: [Place interview was conducted]
Audio file information: [Name][Duration]
Link to field notes:
Link to follow up interview transcript:
Additional Notes:
That’s it on this series on how to transcribe your interviews for dissertation. If you have any burning questions post them below and I’ll be more than happy to answer them. And if you find transcribing your dissertation interviews to be a chore – get in touch . We’ll be glad to transcribe them for you.
Ashmore, Malcolm & Reed, Darren (2000). Innocence and Nostalgia in Conversation Analysis: The Dynamic Relations of Tape and Transcript . Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 1(3), Art. 3.
Cook, Guy (1990). Transcribing infinity: Problems of context presentation. Journal of Pragmatics, 14, 1-24.
Have, Paul ten (1990). Methodological issues in conversation analysis. Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique, 27 (June), 23-51.
Jefferson, Gail (1985). An exercise in the transcription and analysis of laughter. In T. Van Dijk (Ed.), Handbook of Discourse Analysis, Vol. 3: Discourse and Dialogue (pp.25-34). London, UK: Academic Press.
Ochs, Elinor (1979). Transcription as theory. In E. Ochs & B. Schieffelin (Eds.), Developmental Pragmatics. New York: Academic Press.
Heĺlo I am doing a research which has some interviews. Now i want to write the interview in the dissertation. Hiw can you help ne, please. Thank you, shahab.
Shahab, for to be able to assist you, I’ll need to know more about your research methodology. For instance, have you conducted and recorded the interview? How do you plan to analyze the data you collect…?
Regards, Isaac
Can you provide a sample interview transcription chapter for the dissertation. I’m going to have a chapter where I include all of my interview transcripts, but I haven’t yet found a sample chapter.
And you are unlikely to find one. I’ve yet to come across a dissertation that has all the interview transcripts. I’ve seen dissertations with samples of the transcripts in the Appendices, or in an attached CD (most research project transcripts number hundred of pages). Common practice is to reference the transcripts (snippets/quotes) in your results chapter and just leave it at that – talk to your supervisor. If you do plan to include all your interview transcripts, you’ll have to consider consent (get additional consent from the participants to share the transcripts + IRB review) and data anonyminization (not an easy feat – as Nancy Scheper-Hughes found out).
thanks for the guidance. but if I want to include all of the interviews in my dissertation and my study is qualitative so wouldn’t be too lengthy to write those 10 interview transcripts? or should I prefer some other way to include that interview data in my dissertation.
Rarely do researchers include all of the transcripts in their dissertation. And unless there’s a good methodological reason, it’s not recommended. So yes, you should consider other ways to “illustrate” your findings in your results chapter. But first you’ll need to analyze the interviews; here’s a great post on a few how to books.
Hi Isaac, thank you for this post it is immensely useful, and I have been grateful for the guide.
In my interview, I was initially interviewing one person, an author, however, it began as a conversation in an informal setting after lunch and I felt I could not ask the other family members to leave. This meant that my interview began with one interviewee, however, when I directed her the questions, the other family members often interjected or answered on her behalf.
I have attempted to explain this in the Introduction, in the Additional Notes section you have on the Interview cover page.
Do you have any more advice? For example, under ‘Interviewee’ should I add: ‘others present: ______’ ?
Best wishes,
Yeah, I’d add any relevant information to the cover page and maybe consider the interview a group interview. It is interesting what participants say/don’t say when they are alone and in a group. You’ll have to take that into consideration when analyzing the interview.
Hi,that was really nice and helpful I am wondering if i could speak with you in more details as i need some advises
Hi, happy to answer any questions you may have. Just post them in the comment section so that we can also assist other researchers that might have similar questions. KR Isaac
Great Post. Actually i was looking for transcription blogs and ended up here and found some helpful tips. Thanks for sharing.
My pleasure.
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It can be difficult to know where to start when writing your thesis or dissertation . One way to come up with some ideas or maybe even combat writer’s block is to check out previous work done by other students on a similar thesis or dissertation topic to yours.
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How to create an interview guide.
If your research involves gathering data by interviewing people, you will probably need to create an interview guide. An interview guide contains a list of questions you want to cover during your interview(s). It is meant to keep you on track and ensures that you cover all the topics needed to answer your research question(s).
Interview guides are very common in semi-structured interviews. They need to be designed in a way that gives your interviewees enough space to tell their stories and provide you with meaningful data. Therefore, you should include open-ended questions that allow for your conversation to flow freely. Free flowing conversation can help you uncover topics you were not aware of previously (without wandering off your subject matter). An interview guide acts as an unobtrusive road map you can turn to during the interview to yourself back on course. A good interview guide provides you with prompts and a general direction.
As your research progresses, you can update your interview guide to include new questions. Often, an initial interview guide can be used for the first few interviews, after which a few tweaks can be made to allow you (the researcher) to dive deeper into the topic by using a revised guide. A revised guide should not be perceived as a stumbling block. On the contrary, creating a revised interview guide can be a sign of a good research process — it shows you are letting the research material guide you (and not vice versa).
Here are some useful strategies when you create an interview guide:
Structure of an Interview Guide
In qualitative research, a lot can depend on the ability of the researcher to enter the field and build rapport with their respondents. When people feel at ease with you, they are more likely to share information honestly and freely. The idea is to build trust and rapport as quickly as possible. Therefore, it can be helpful if you structure your interview so it is set up to build trust quickly. For example, it is usually a good idea to begin the conversation with a warm-up question. Start by asking a simple question that your participants can easily answer and that helps them feel more relaxed. This first question doesn’t necessarily need to be related to your overall topic.
Create an interview guide so the structure of your interview follows a logical order and flows naturally. Don’t jump from one topic to another. Also, if you feel that enough time has been spent answering a certain question, you can use gentle probes to change the subject (e.g. “Let’s move on to another topic now.”).
Save the most difficult questions for the end of the interview. It is more likely people will be willing to share their private experience after they have had some time to become more comfortable with you.
Finish with a question that can provide some closure to the interview. It is important that at the end of your interview, your respondent(s) feel positive and pleased they have participated in your research.
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Including interviews in your dissertation. To present interviews in a dissertation, you first need to transcribe your interviews. You can use transcription software for this. You can then add the written interviews to the appendix. If you have many or long interviews that make the appendix extremely long, the appendix (after consultation with ...
2. Not having good interview technique. While you're generally not expected to become you to be an expert interviewer for a dissertation or thesis, it is important to practice good interview technique and develop basic interviewing skills.. Let's go through some basics that will help the process along.
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Depending on the type of interview you are conducting, your questions will differ in style, phrasing, and intention. Structured interview questions are set and precise, while the other types of interviews allow for more open-endedness and flexibility. Here are some examples. Structured. Semi-structured.
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A dissertation interview is a method of primary data collection used in academic research, typically undertaken for a dissertation or thesis. It can be in the form of a structured, semi-structured, or unstructured interview between the researcher and the interviewee(s), with the goal of gaining detailed, firsthand insights into the research topic.
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Incorporating interviews into your dissertation is a good idea. You must first transcribe your interviews before you can present them in your dissertation. You can do this with transcribing software. The written interviews can then be added to the appendix. If you have a lot of interviews or they are very extensive, the appendix can be ...
Writing an interview transcript for a dissertation requires balancing academic standards for compliance, accuracy, and coherence. The interviewee's details and variations are conveyed in this transcript, which not only provides essential support for your study but also adds depth and richness to your dissertation.
Introduction. When you incorporate original interview data into your writing, you are developing new ideas by using quotations and often sources that no one else has accessed. Drawing from interviews can liven up your writing, ground your big concepts within the specific circumstances of particular individuals, and introduce you to insights you ...
An Example of Dissertation Methodology is as follows: Chapter 3: Methodology. Introduction. ... Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 participants chosen from the initial sample. The interview guide included questions about participants' experiences with stress and how they perceived its impact on their productivity.
The results chapter in a dissertation or thesis (or any formal academic research piece) is where you objectively and neutrally present the findings of your qualitative analysis (or analyses if you used multiple qualitative analysis methods). This chapter can sometimes be combined with the discussion chapter (where you interpret the data and ...
A great way of getting the data you need for your dissertation research question is by interviewing people. You can approach interviewing in a number of ways; the methods you choose depend on what you're trying to find out. The kinds of methods you can choose include: Life history. Paired.
Dissertation examples. Listed below are some of the best examples of research projects and dissertations from undergraduate and taught postgraduate students at the University of Leeds We have not been able to gather examples from all schools. The module requirements for research projects may have changed since these examples were written.
If you are writing an article, dissertation, or monograph based on qualitative interviewing, and wish to follow the conventions of the trade, you are likely to structure your report into five separate chunks (see e.g. Silverman, 2000): An introductory part, a literature review, a methodology part, the findings, and a concluding part. I shall ...
A dissertation is a long-form piece of academic writing based on original research conducted by you. It is usually submitted as the final step in order to finish a PhD program. Your dissertation is probably the longest piece of writing you've ever completed. It requires solid research, writing, and analysis skills, and it can be intimidating ...
Here's a sample dissertation interview cover page you can use. Interviewee: [Name of interviewee] [Pseudonym] Interviewer: [Name of interviewer] Date and Time: [mm/dd/yyyy][00:00] Location: [Place interview was conducted] Audio file information: [Name][Duration] Link to field notes: Link to follow up interview transcript: Additional Notes:
Prize-Winning Thesis and Dissertation Examples. Published on September 9, 2022 by Tegan George.Revised on July 18, 2023. It can be difficult to know where to start when writing your thesis or dissertation.One way to come up with some ideas or maybe even combat writer's block is to check out previous work done by other students on a similar thesis or dissertation topic to yours.
If your research involves gathering data by interviewing people, you will probably need to create an interview guide. An interview guide contains a list of questions you want to cover during your interview(s). It is meant to keep you on track and ensures that you cover all the topics needed to answer your research question(s).