O uso inicial do software webQDA para apoiar a condução de uma tese

Abstract

The research experience can start out as a curiosity and turn into something valuable, from an investigative perspective. Beginning with unexpected participation in the 6th Congress of Qualitative Research, the first author developed training, which, in his sense, led him to find a safe way for, with the second author, his supervisor, to conduct his Thesis. The objective of this article is to present the report of the experience of initial use of the webQDA software, in the elaboration of an investigation process, so that this work can help other people to carry out activities of the same nature. In order to systematize the experience report, the autobiographical narrative as a methodological basis, carrying out a critical and systematic reflection on the chronological development and on the how and why of this experience, seeking, as a result, to characterize the training taken by the first author as an explorer of knowledge about the software and organizer, in the sense of structuring his research questions with internal coherence. Finally, we tried, with this short article, to demonstrate that webQDA is a powerful matrix, providing the researcher and his supervisor to organize the investigation, in order to properly apply the content analysis resource to the research development.