1) Identify important issues

Read the transcript and mark quotations you feel represent an important issue. Name the issue as you see it.

2) Applying beliefs, values and practices

Provide the quotation (cut and paste) and write something about the Belief, Value and Practice within the quotation.

3) Social and institutional discourses

Write about the social and institutional discourses you see informing the issue you identified. Sometimes this is clearly described in the quotation but most often you need to expand on the implied ideas. You still need to clearly connect to the evidence (words and meaning provided by participant).

4) Responding to relations of power

As you write about the discourses, you need to connect these ideas to the

participant. How do the discourses affect the participant? Does he/she agree or disagree with the beliefs, values and practices? Is it an easy or positive fit? Or are there questions, conflicts, tensions, etc? These are the “relations of power” that the participant is feeling/experiencing.

5) Subjectivity and agency

You can also add in the participant’s “subjectivity” (how they are positioned as a nurse, man, woman, teacher etc) as well as their “agency” (how they choose to act in each situation by fitting in or challenging).