NODES

AND
CODING
Prepared By:
Dr Maslawati Mohamad
Faculty of Education
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
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Nodes
Nodes

are where you store data

about ideas or themes that emerge
as work with your project

Some

researchers already have some

ideas on the nodes based on their
experience and literature review

Some

researchers may create nodes

as they discover themes in their data
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1. Click VIEW
2. Click DETAIL VIEW
3. Click RIGHT

STEP 2: Click NODE

3. Go to column for NODES

4. Right click

5. A dialogue box will appear

6. Fill in the information
7. Name the node

8. Develop child note

9. Click the parent node
10. Click New Node

11: Mark/highlight the

sentence/phrase
12: Drag and drop at the targeted
node

13: Click to node to check your entry

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14. To check your work. Click VIEW

15. Click CODING STRIPES
16. Click NODES RECENTLY CODING

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17. To undo. Click NONE

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18. Another way to check your coding

19. Click HIGHLIGHT
20. To undo, Click NONE

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To Uncode
Mark/Highlight

the phrase

Right

click
Uncode selection
AT THIS NODE
You can also uncode part of the
sentence/phrase

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Step 8: To delete the node

Go

to targeted node
Right click
Click DELETE

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To code directly on the Picture

Image
Click

and drag the picture image

to the node
Right click and choose code
selection at Existing Node or at
New Node

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Step 11: To move your node

In List View, select the node that
you plan to move
2. Right Click and choose CUT
3. Select the Node where you want
the cut node to be located
4. Right Click and choose Paste
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Cut

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Paste

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Step 12: To Merge Node

1. Click CUT
2. Go to the targeted NODE
3. Click MERGE

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Step 12: To merge node

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To color the node

1. Go to the targeted node
2. Right click
3. Select COLOR

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To create annotation
. 1. Go the targeted word
2. Right click
3. Choose LINKS
4. Choose ANNOTATION
5. Fill in relevant information

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To Undo
Unmark

ANNOTATION

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To check all the ANNOTATIONS

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To link to other document

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Go to the targeted word

Right click
Click Hyperlink
Go the targeted document
Press OK

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THE END

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Another way of coding

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1.
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6.

Go to ANALYZE
Highlight the targeted word/phrase
Go to EXISTING NODE
Mark the targeted EXISTING NODE
Press OK
Check your entry

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