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''<nowiki>All the available computer assisted qualitative data analysis software packages [CAQDAS] can only </nowiki>'''assist''' in analysis: they will NOT '''do''' the analysis. They are only tools (often very useful ones) and not solutions to the main challenges of analysis. This means, using a CAQDAS package is no substitute for understanding the relevant literature, knowing why you carried out the research, reading the transcripts closely and several times, and thinking creatively about what they mean and their possible contribution to helping to answer the research questions!''
''<nowiki>All the available computer assisted qualitative data analysis software packages [CAQDAS] can only </nowiki>'''assist''' in analysis: they will NOT '''do''' the analysis. They are only tools (often very useful ones) and not solutions to the main challenges of analysis. This means, using a CAQDAS package is no substitute for understanding the relevant literature, knowing why you carried out the research, reading the transcripts closely and several times, and thinking creatively about what they mean and their possible contribution to helping to answer the research questions!''