They recommend, first, a general review of all information, often in the form of jotting down notes in the margins of text(e.g., observational fieldnotes, interview transcriptions, notes about photographs or videotapes). I personally favor reading through all collected information to obtain a sense of the overall data, a procedure also advocated by Tesch(1990). In addition, writing findings in the form of memos and reflective notes is an initial sorting-out process. One also might begin to write summaries of field notes.
At this point, the researcher might obtain feedback on the initial summaries by taking information back to informants, a procedure to be discussed later as a key verification step in research as well as an analysis step. Also at this point, a researcher looks closely at thewerd6 used by participants in the study, such as the metaphors they use, or the researcher translates participants' ideas into metaphors. The process of reducing the data begins. It is followed by creating displays of information such as diagrams, tables, or graphs-means for visualizing the information and representing it by case, by subject, or by theme