Atlas - Ti Training Notes To Participants

Atlas.
ti training
Systematic Literature review using
Atlas.ti
Preview of writing literature review using Atlas.ti

http://www.screenr.com/AxZH
aznur hajar abdullah (AHA) Copyright 2015

In today’s training
Today’s training, we will learn about :
• Challenges in reading and writing literature review

• Introduction to Atlas.ti software
• Introducing auto-code function and
other coding functions
• Generate output from auto-code/coding

Time
TENTATIVE PROGRAMME
Program Goals
9.00 - 9.30 am The need for systematic literiture review using atlas.ti Participants are able to identify
the needs for atlas.ti
9.30-10.00 Introduction to Atlas.ti : Hands on training on atlas.ti
Basic functions basic functions
10.00-10.30 Break
10.30 – 11.00 Intergrating outlines of your papers / thesis into atlas.ti : Assisting partcipants in
Assisted by k-chart preparing k-chart and
transferred their input from k-
chart into atlas.ti
11.00-12.30 noon Develop codes based on k-chart Develop codes and family based
 Auto coding vs manual coding on k-chart
 Creating families
 Word cruncher Participants should be able to:
 distinguish when to use

auto and manual coding
 create families
12.30-2.00 pm Break
2.00-3.00 Managing quotations to support Hypothesis testing Introducing co-occurency table
Managing outputs from Atlas.ti
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Session 1 :
Challenges in reading and writing literature review

Types of reading and writing
materials

Who can challenge you on what
your read and write
Who usually do the THE MOST IMPORTANT
monitoring? AND CLOSEST PERSON
- Supervisor TO DO IT IS :
- Conference committee
YOU
- Peers
- Project members
- Proposal / Work
Completion / Viva
Defense Panels
- Journal editors
Poor
Poor Writing
Organizing
skills
skills
Time
Common constraint
challenges
Etc …
Lack of focus
while reading

Problems in writing
Due to :
• Lack of reading
• Lack of bird eyes view / “waze” view
• Write while you read

PROBLEM 1 : Lack of VOICE and Cohesion

Problem 2 : Lack of cohesion
• Another research carried out by Fauzia, Farah, and Nadia (2012) found a
positive realtionship between a teacher’s efficiency with job performance
. The research also found that in secondary schools, female teachers have
higher level of efficiency compared to male teachers. Besides, teachers
with more experience in teaching and have higher level of academic
background have higher self efficiency. The research also found out that
female students are seen to be more concerned of their teachers’
performance compared to male students. Students who came form
familiies with high source of income tend to look down upon their
teachers’ performances
• Comment
No linkages / flow from one statement to another statement

Problem 3 : No synthesis
(plagiarism?)

In sum,
A literature review is not supposed to simply

demonstrate how much you've read, but
provide a description of how certain parts of
what you have read provide the foundation
for, motivate, and frame your research
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Contributions toward the study
• Industry /contextual Manifest the gaps in
Your PROBLEM STATEMENT
gap
• Theoretical gap
• Methodological gap To close the gaps:
Research methodology
Problem statement (from Prof Ramayah’s class)
Problem statements often have three elements:
1. The problem itself, stated clearly and with enough contextual detail to establish why
it is important
2. The method of solving the problem, often stated as a claim or a working thesis
3. The purpose, statement of objective and scope of the project being proposed.
aznur
Example of a thesis outline - hajar abdullah
Curtin (AHA) Copyright 2015
University Australia
What are reviewer looking for
• Contribution of study
• Originality
• Novelty of research
----------------------------------------------------------
• Theoretical advancement
• Explain the process , not only explain the
relationship between variables

Before using ATLAS.ti

Summary of writing preparation
• Do it once, do it right !
Steps:
1. Use Systematic Literature review method for keywords search;

2. Stay close to your data by using computer assisted softwares
like ATLAS.ti; Read-by-objective; Prepare the matrix
3. Multi-tasking - Manage your reference using bibliographic
manager like EndNote or Mendeley;
4. Data storage strategy using cloud computing;
5. Plan to Publish key papers that relate to your research in high
impact journals

Several available techniques
Preparation before to use Atlas.ti
• Getting relevant articles and

books
• Literature review matrix
• K- Chart
• ZDOT

The symbols
• http://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-to-use-wildcard-search-with-various-
google-services/28911/
Step 1 :
Getting relevant articles / books

Step 2
• Start reading in Atlas.ti . At the same time …
• Prepare Literature review matrix or find paper
that has one.

Lit. review matrix

Step 3
Once your literature review matrix completed,
prepare K-chart.

Research
planning
“Keep on writing although it does not make any sense yet,

eventually the idea will emerge”
– Prof Hajibah Osman, Language Institute of UITM
Disagree with the above statement. Because …
•Wasting time
•Non-direction in reading and writing

K-Chart: Tool for Research Planning & Monitoring
Prof Mohd Khazani Abdullah

System- an area of research, research scope etc
Method – how you are going to do the research
Achievement (Result) you want to achieve

THE IMPORTANCE OF ISSUES
•
LAYER
The more detail the layers, the less the assumption,
the better
• Every time there is a jump between the layers, an
assumption is made (thus, a justification is required)
• One can choose any way he/she likes to arrange the
sequence of layers
• However, Issues of the same theme should be in the
same layer
• The Issues Layers indicate
- The scope of critical reviews (what to get from the
papers)
- The focused issues (designation of issues)
- The rationale in choosing issues to study (to move
from one level to the next)
- The Problem Statement
THE IMPORTANCE OF METHODS

Prof Mohd Khazani Abdullah
With A K-Chart, let’s try to answer these
questions again ….
1. What is the specific title of study
2. How wide/deep is the study?
3. How much is the literature review?
4. What do I look for in reading reference papers ?
5. How do I choose between two (or more) options
6. How do I decide to move to the next level of study?
7. How do I develop the objectives of study
8. What is the methodology (Theory, Simulation,
Experiment, Observation, Survey) ?
9. How many results (# curves, graphs, charts) can be
obtained
10. Which results to be focused on?
11. How to arrange the results
12. How many comparisons can be made?
13. How to cluster for sub-projects
14. Who to do what?
and more …
15. How to plan for publication ?
16. How to construct articles’ titles ?
17. How to organize the report structure ?
18. How to plan for a graduate thesis writing?
19. How to integrate with new ideas ?
20. How to re-align the area of research when the
original plan does not work ?

K-chart session
Within 10 minutes
Draw your K-chart

Some Viva / journal reviewers
questions
• Why did you decide on this particular research question?
• Did you encounter any problems with applying this method of
analysis?
• Do you think the data you collected were the most
appropriate to answer your research question or are there
any other data you would have liked to have collected?
• In what ways does this research make a significant
contribution to your particular field of study? What have you
done that merits a PhD?
• Comment on and justify your research methodology. Why
have you done it this way? What are the alternatives to your
approach?

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/gradschool/resources/viva/prepare/responses
Components in journal articles
Journal articles can be challenging to read, but most contain
many of the same components.
• Abstract - a summary of the entire article
• The literature review provides information about past studies
that have been done on this topic.
• The methods section provides information about the
individuals that the authors studied and the way that they
conducted their analysis.
• The results section provides information about what the
authors found when they analyzed their data.
• The conclusion or discussion section summarizes the authors'
main findings and explains why the findings are so important
Source: http://www.sagepub.com/ballantine2study/read.htm
Active reading
How to Approach the Article
When you read journal articles, always remember that YOU
are going to write a paper based on what you read.
So, do the following:

• Keep in mind your research questions
• Focus on the information in the article that is

relevant to your research question (skim over other parts)
• Question everything you read - not everything is 100% true

• Think critically about what you read and try to build your
own argument based on it
http://www.pasadena.edu/hstutoringlab/writing/writingscholarlyarticle.cfm
aznur
Example of a thesis outline - hajar abdullah
Curtin (AHA) Copyright 2015
University Australia
Session 2
Introduction to Atlas.ti

“ATLAS.ti” stands for “Archiv für Technik, Lebenswelt und Alltagssprache”
[Archive for Technology, the Life World and Everyday Language].

The extension “ti” stands for “text interpretation.”

Types of data can be used for Atlas.ti
• text documents (such as interviews, articles, reports);
• images (photos, screen shots, diagrams),
• audio recordings (interviews, broadcasts, music),
• video clips (audiovisual material),
• PDF files (papers, brochures, reports),
• geo data (locative data using Google Earth).

As a start ….
Label the journals author, year (create in a

separate folder)
• How to change from the Mendeley Desktop
references format to Atlas.ti format.
• http://www.screenr.com/hmNH

Session 3
Introduction to basic functions of Atlas.ti

Source : Webinar Ani Munirah

Hermeneutic Unit
where all data, quotes , codes, output are managed.

Source: Atlas.ti V7 Manual
When you open ATLAS.ti, the welcome wizard
appears which offers you four options on
beginning a session. You can choose to open
an already existing Hermeneutic Unit (HU)

Primary Documents (PDs)
• PDs are the data you need to analyze—audio
or video files, images, interview transcriptions,
maps, or text documents
• Original data sources are preserved when you
make a file into a PD
• PDs can be RTF, PDF, Microsoft Word, JPEG,
AVI, WAV, and more

Quotation
• A quotation is a segment from a PD that is
interesting or important to the user.
• In textual documents, a quotation is an
arbitrary sequence of characters ranging in
length from a single character, to a word, a
sentence, or a paragraph, even up to the
entire data file.

Still empty, no quotation yet.

Then , transfer the files into the software by
Add document  Add document (my library)

Coding Documents
1. Open Coding – use Open Coding when you want to create a new node and
associate it with an existing quotation or text segment.
2. Code-by-List – use this option if you want to assign existing codes to a quotation or
selection
3. In-Vivo Coding – use this option when the selected text itself is a good name for
the code
4. Auto Coding – use this option if you want to apply the currently selected code to
the marked segment. It is a quick way to assign the same code to consecutive text
segments.

Open coding or manual coding
Open coding allows you to create your own terms for the codes you assign.
After you assign a code, it will be displayed in the right-hand task area.

Code In-Vivo
• the highlighted text as its code name.

Code by List
After you have created multiple codes, the Code by List option
becomes available to you.

Special function
- Auto coding

When to use auto-code function
• When we know exactly what to search
• The keyword is unique word (not too general)
• We’ve already prepared outline for write up
• Examples of auto code:
Author’s name (Guru of our study)
Unique concept (e.g Opportunism, attachment
condition)
Unique method of investigation (e.g snowball
sampling)
Auto code : Search by author’s name e.g: “Penrose”
"Confirm Always"
Pls untick.

http://uiuc.libguides.com/content.php?pid=392501&sid=3262155
Some tips to enhance search results :
E.g:
ill│illness*│disease│infectio*│medicat*
Boolen operator
Manual
coding

Groundedness: the number of data segments (e.g., quotations)
associated with a particular code
Density: the number of links (associations) between a code and other

codes, families, or memos
Change to other Languages
http://www.7tutorials.com/changing-
display-language-used-non-unicode-
programs
Word Cruncher
• It is a tool that allows to count word
frequencies across documents. This tool has
two variations: a table and a word cloud.
Go to:
Analysis  Word Cruncher

Analyze your code

Managing your ATLAS.ti output
What’s next?

3 basic areas in Literature review
Part 1 : Introduction
The introduction explains the focus and establishes the

importance of the subject.
It discusses what kind of work has been done on the

topic and identifies any controversies within the field or
any recent research which has raised questions about
earlier assumptions.
It may provide background or history.
http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/specif
ic-types-of-writing/literature-review
3 basic areas in Literature review
Part 2 : Body
Highlights gaps and indicates how previous research
leads to your own research project and chosen
methodology.
Part 3: Conclusion
Suggest any practical applications of the research as well
as the implications and possibilities for future research.
http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/specif
ic-types-of-writing/literature-review
To ensure access: Go to Project/Copy
Bundle/Create Bundle
Reason for creating : If your laptop crashed or the
existing HU is corrupted, you need to retrieve the
bundle
• Select the files you wish to be bundled
• ATLAS.ti will list any files that cannot be bundled
(e.g., if a file is missing)
• The Copy Bundle is saved with an ‘.atlcb’ extension
• From your new location, open ATLAS.ti, go to
Project/Copy Bundle/Install Bundle
• Select your Copy Bundle file for installation
Copy bundle

Please wait for a moment

Copy bundle

Session 4
Hands on activity

Exercise activity : Let’s do it together
• Insert 10 journals into atlas.ti
• Open a word file and outline your writing
E.g:
2.0 Literature review
2.1 Theory ABC revolution
2.2 Current trends
• Create coding based on your outline

If you are interested with the software
• I am not an authorized seller, But you can contact the authorized seller.
ANI MUNIRAH
Email: animunirah@gmail.com
• Photocopy / scan your IC and student ID and send to her email.

• Check the latest price in from Ani Munirah.
• For example, if conversion rate is at US1 = RM 3.60; USD 89 =

• ALL IN Price as per FEB 2015 = RM320
If you are interested with the software
• I am not an authorized seller, But you can contact the authorized seller :
animunirah@gmail.com
• Photocopy / scan your IC and student ID and send to her email.

• Check the latest price in http://atlasti.com/product/licenses-prices/
Other Atlas.ti reseller:

http://www.atlasti.com/resellerdir.html#MY
animunirah@gmail.com
Additional readings / videos on atlas.ti
• http://www.jou.ufl.edu/archive/researchlab/atlastimanual.pd
f
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmRAWCLg-yc
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xub8HFUJnOc
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YibqDB0iO-0
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f1jO3B4Z18
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fwELWr8xx8
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqau5YgaJPk
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_oHgih_RJQ
• http://www.atlasti.com/nl_201003_prop1.html#!
• http://atlastimalaysia.com/new-video-on-auto-coding-in-
atlas-ti-7/

THANK YOU
aznurmmu@gmail.com
Wish you all the best!

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Preview of writing literature review using Atlas.ti

aznur hajar abdullah (AHA) Copyright 2015

• Challenges in reading and writing literature review

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 distinguish when to use

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A literature review is not supposed to simply

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Problem statement (from Prof Ramayah’s class)

Problem statements often have three elements:

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1. Use Systematic Literature review method for keywords search;

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• Getting relevant articles and

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“Keep on writing although it does not make any sense yet,

Disagree with the above statement. Because …

•Non-direction in reading and writing

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Method – how you are going to do the research

Achievement (Result) you want to achieve

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So, do the following:

• Focus on the information in the article that is

• Question everything you read - not everything is 100% true

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[Archive for Technology, the Life World and Everyday Language].

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• images (photos, screen shots, diagrams),

• audio recordings (interviews, broadcasts, music),

• video clips (audiovisual material),

• PDF files (papers, brochures, reports),

• geo data (locative data using Google Earth).

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Label the journals author, year (create in a

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