Cross-cultural Studies > Methods and participants > Rhetorical structure analysis
Participants and responsibilities
Principal Investigator (PI) and coordinator of Phase 2: Ana I. Moreno (ULE)
- Coordinating John Swales’ workshops and team meetings to agree on a common coding protocol.
- Exploring software options, testing NVivo and training ENEIDA coders.
- Organising NVivo workshops and ensuring consistent coding practices.
- Writing and disseminating the coding protocol among co-investigators.
- Coordinating segmentation and labelling of text units in all RA sections.
- Assisting the co-investigators until obtaining a coding scheme for each section.
- Coordinating Hilo Digital’s preparation of the sample corpora in .doc format for NVivo coding.
- Performing reliability tests in NVivo.
- Co-designing and revising the process for converting research articles from ‘pdf.’ format to ‘txt.’ format, including necessary tags.
- Writing guidelines for the ENEIDA annotators in UAM Corpus Tool and revising their work.
- Importing and annotating a subsample of research article Discussions (and/or Conclusion) sections into UAM Corpus Tool.
- Disseminating methods and preliminary cross-cultural results for the Discussion (and/or Conclusion) section.
- Coordinating bibliography exchange.
- Managing administrative tasks and acquiring necessary equipment and software.
Participants in the coding schemes design with NVivo
Co-investigators: the ENEIDA coders with NVivo: Ana I. Moreno (ULE), Sally Burgess (ULL), Pedro Martín-Martín (ULL), Mª Lluisa Gea (UJI)
| The ENEIDA coders of the EXEMPRAES Comparable Corpora sample of 12 RAs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Section in the research article | Co-investigator | ||||
| Introduction (and Literature Review) | Sally Burgess | ||||
| Methods | Mª Lluisa Gea-Valor | ||||
| Results (and Discussion) | Pedro Martín-Martín | ||||
| Discussion (and/ or Conclusions) | Ana I. Moreno | ||||
- Participating in methodological meetings and Nvivo workshops imparted by Marie Helénè Paré.
- Exchanging bibliography.
- Analysing and segmenting assigned RA section.
- Labelling text units and producing coding schemes.
- Revising coding schemes after feedback from the Principal Investigator.
- Training independent coders.
- Disseminating preliminary cross-cultural results.
Participants in annotating with UAM Corpus Tool
Co-investigators: The ENEIDA annotators with UAM Corpus Tool: Pedro Martín-Martín (ULL) , Mª Lluisa Gea-Valor (UJI), Sally Burgess (ULL), Ana I. Moreno (ULE) and Silvia Ramos (collaborator ULE)
- Importing reformatted RA sections into UAM Corpus Tool
- Annotating RA sections according to guidelines and coding schemes
External consultant: John Swales (University of Michigan, UM)
Serving as an external consultant for the Principal Investigator.
Conducting four workshops to ensure the ENEIDA Phase 2 team acquired common interpretation and analytical skills.
Collaborating with the Principal Investigator to help refine and clarify aspects of the method of analysis down to the level of the step in research article Discussion (and/or Conclusion) sections.
Research collaborator 1: Marie Helénè Paré (Barcelona)
- Attending John Swales’ workshops on genre analysis
- Conducting two NVivo workshops (NVivo Essentials and Further Analysis in NVivo) and providing methodological and technical guidance:
- Assisting the Principal Investigator in organising the training of co-investigators to develop coding schemes for their respective research article sections, based on the proposed coding protocol and using NVivo for collaboration (e.g., sending and opening projects, coding texts, handling new codes as they arise, and merging coded data for inter-rater reliability tests).
- Leading the group discussion on the coding process during the September 2013 ENEIDA meeting in Madrid and training co-investigators on using NVivo for collaborative research purposes.
- Providing ongoing technical guidance to the Principal Investigator online, including data export and data coding.
Contents of NVivo Essentials:
- Importing and coding documents
- Working with your themes and ideas and shaping your findings
- Importing and coding other items
- Exploring your data
Contents of Further Analysis in NVivo:
- Classifying and categorising data
- Grouping your data: collections and links
- Exploring your data
- Models and relationships
- Visualising your data
- Reporting and presenting your findings
Research collaborator 2: Silvia Ramos (ULE)
- Attending NVivo (Essentials and Further Analysis) and genre analysis workshops.
- Attending the September 2013 ENEIDA Meeting in Madrid.
- Assisting the Principal Investigator during meetings.
- Receiving training to propose a coding scheme for research article abstracts.
- Receiving training as an independent coder for the Discussion and/or Conclusion section.
- Importing sections and copying the PI analysis of a subsample of RA Discussions and/or Conclusion section in UAM Corpus Tool.
Other researchers: Ramón Rodríguez (CSIC, Madrid)
Attending John Swales’ workshops on genre analysis.
Collaborating with the Principal Investigator to ensure meaningful labels for general and specific functions in the Discussion (and Closing) sections.
Other collaborators: Hilo Digital
- Preparing sample corpora files for coding.
- Converting RAs from pdf to ‘doc’ format for use with NVivo.
- Reformating texts for use with NVivo.
- Converting RAs from .pdf to .txt format for UAM Corpus Tool.
- Adding necessary tags for UAM Corpus Tool.
- Assisting with file exchange among team members.
The ENEIDA research team for Phase 2
In addition to their work, the ENEIDA research team for Phase 2 also enjoyed memorable meals together during their intense and stimulating workshops. Theresa Lillis was present at the last one in Phase 2 as the external consultant for Phase 3.
From left to right: Sally Burgess, Pedro Martín-Martín, Theresa Lillis,Rosa Lorés,
Ana I. Moreno, Mª Lluisa Gea-Valor, Pilar Mur and John Swales.