Results
Broad categories relating information-seeking activities
behaviors to concepts of chronological sequence within
information-seeking contexts emerged early in analysis.
From this approach a naı¨ve picture of three stages, initial,
middle and final was developed (Table 2). The table illustrates
the behaviors initially identified with a stage model.
The initial result was tested using the co-occurrence tests
built into the Atlas-ti qualitative analysis software, and
through visual comparison of network views of emergent
codes and their relationship to one another. Evidence for the
presence of stages was undermined once ideas of a passage
of time and occurrence of activities were seen side by side
with the resultant stages. The presence of stages was further