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  • Welcome
    • Course Overview
      • Trainer Bio
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  • Module 1: Introduction to NVivo
    • Workshop Description
    • 1. Getting Started
    • 2. What is NVivo?
    • 3. Importing Files into NVivo
    • 4. Coding Files in NVivo
  • Module 2: Organising Nodes and Coding Cases in NVivo
    • Workshop Description
    • 1. Organising Your Coding
    • 2. Case Classifications
    • 3. Cases
    • 4. Sentiment Analysis
  • Module 3: Keeping Track of Your Research in NVivo
    • Workshop Description
    • 1. Memos
    • 2. Annotations
    • 3. File Classifications
    • 4. Project Maps
  • Module 4: Creating Visualisations in NVivo
    • Workshop Description
    • 1. Understanding Queries
    • 2. Matrix Coding and Cross-Tabulation
    • 3. Hierarchy Charts
    • 4. Bar Charts
  • Module 5: How to Write a Literature Review in NVivo
    • Workshop Description
    • 1. Importing Reference Data
    • 2. Managing Reference Data
    • 3. Writing a Literature Review from NVivo
    • 4. Systematic Reviews and NVivo
  • Module 6: Web Scraping and NVivo
    • Workshop Description
    • 1. NCapture
    • 2. Twitter Data
    • 3. Autocoding in NVivo
    • 4. Alternative Approaches
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  • What's the Difference between Memos and Annotations?
  • Video: Introduction to Import, Memo and Annotation
  • Task: Annotating your Research

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  1. Module 3: Keeping Track of Your Research in NVivo

2. Annotations

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What's the Difference between Memos and Annotations?

Whilst memos are individual documents which you create in NVivo, annotations are recorded and stored alongside and within the file themselves. As such, Annotations are relevant for tracking things like comments or observations about specific information within files or nodes.

Video: Introduction to Import, Memo and Annotation

If you're anything like me, you might be working through these modules all in one go trying to learn everything you can about NVivo. One shortcoming about the approach that these modules take is that they can appear overly prescriptive. As per their design - you might think that annotations and memos come after you've coded textual information. This video instead places memos and annotations alongside importing files, and thus at the very beginning of your research using NVivo.

Task: Annotating your Research

  1. Create an annotation for a file

  2. Create an annotation within a node

NVivo 12 tutorial - Introduction to import, memo and annotation by Billy Wong (2018)