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Subject: 6.1162, Confs: 4th International Conf on Narrative
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:53:07 EDT
From: JKNUF at UKCC.UKY.EDU (Joachim Knuf)
Subject: Forwarded Mail (fwd)
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:53:07 EDT
From: JKNUF at UKCC.UKY.EDU (Joachim Knuf)
Subject: Forwarded Mail (fwd)
Dear friends and colleagues:
Please find below the amended registration form for the narrative conference. I
have appended a file that describes the NUD%iIST WORKSHOP in detail. Please
register early since places are restricted. Also, please share this information
with your colleagues. Although the workshop is focused on narrative and
similar language data, it is also open to separate registration outside the
conference.
Hope to see many of you this October! Joachim Knuf
UNITY AND DIVERSITY
THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NARRATIVE
October 13 - 15, 1995
University of Kentucky
18th Floor, Patterson Office Tower Lexington, KY
REGISTRATION
Please use the bottom part of this form to advance register
for the Fourth International Conference on Narrative no later
than September 15. Thereafter, please register at the
conference. The conference site is the 18th floor of the
Patterson Office Tower on the University of Kentucky campus.
Further parking information will be included in the
registration confirmation. Registration confirmation and
receipts will be mailed to you as soon as possible.
The regular registration fee is $60.00; students and the
unwaged register for $20.00. The regular registration fee
will cover lunches and refreshments, as well as a
subscription to the conference volume; the reduced rate
includes only refreshments. Additional subscriptions are
available at a cost of $25.00. Please make your check payable
TO THE 'UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY' AND MARK IT '1995 NARRATIVE
CONFERENCE.'
WORKSHOP REGISTRATION
All-Day Pre-Conference Workshop On Qualitative Computing
Thursday, October 12, 1995
Learn from Lyn Richards, co-author of NUD%IST, the leading
software package for the analysis of nonnumerical,
unstructured data in qualitative research. This workshop will
be conducted on Power Macintosh machines running either
Macintosh, Windows, or DOS operating systems. Demonstration
programs will be available to participants. Arrangements are
being made to have copies of the software available at
reduced prices at the conference.
...The registration fee of $120.00 for this workshop includes
LUNCH. PLEASE RESERVE YOUR SEAT EARLY AND MARK YOUR CHECK
'WORKSHOP'!
Name to appear on conference badge:
Address:
City: State: Zip:
Day time phone: ( ) - E-Mail:
Institutional affiliation:
[ ] I am traveling by car and need a parking sticker.
[ ] I would like to participate in the workshop; my
check is enclosed.
Please return to:
Joachim Knuf, Department of Communication, University of
Kentucky, 231 Grehan Building, Lexington, KY 40506-0042
HOTEL INFORMATION
Contingents of rooms are available in two hotels; both are
within convenient distance of the UK campus, but none is
within easy walking distance (no hotel is, unfortunately):
THE SPRINGS INN
2020 Harrodsburg Road
Lexington, KY 40503
Reservations: Room rates (excluding tax):
Toll-free: 1-800-354-9503 Single: $35.00
FAX: (606) 277-3142 Double: $44.00
TEL: (606) 277-5751 Additional person: $ 4.00
The cut-off rate for reservations at the Springs Inn at this
preferred rate is September 11, 1995. Please make your
reservations early.
FRENCH QUARTER SUITES HOTEL
2601 Richmond Road
Lexington, KY 40509
Reservations: Suite rates (excluding tax):
Toll-free: 1-800-262-3774 Single: $89.00
FAX: (606) 268-6209 Double: $89.00
TEL: (606) 268-0060 Additional person: $10.00
The cut-off rate for reservations at the French Quarter
Suites at this preferred rate is September 15, 1995. Please
make your reservations early.
If you need any help with alternative hotel arrangements,
please call your preferred 1-800 number, or contact the
Greater Lexington Convention and Visitors Bureau at (606)
233-1221.
For all other information and assistance, please contact:
Joachim Knuf, Conference Organizer
Department of Communication, University of Kentucky
231 Grehan Building, Lexington, KY 40506-0042 (606) 257-4102
JKNUF at ukcc.uky.edu.
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WORKSHOPS IN THE NUD*IST SOFTWARE FOR QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS
QSR NUD*IST (Non-numerical Unstructured Data Indexing Searching and
Theorising) is a graphical user interface program (for IBM-PC or Macintosh)
designed to help researchers handle small or large mountains of words (or
any other unstructured online or offline records). Recognised as leading in
the field of qualitative research software, it has been described as having
"unparalleled power" in searching and retrieval (Weitzman, E. and Miles,
M., Computer Programs for Qualitative Analysis, Sage, 1995.)
A document system supports thorough organisation and rigorous analysis
whilst not damaging the complexity or losing the context of these records.
The researcher creates and manages ideas and categories in a flexible index
system. Coding is done simply on the screen, exploring is done by
searching text or coding. The program uniquely supports the qualitative
techniques of exploration of data, returning discoveries and answers to the
system as more data for future exploration and interrogation.
NUD*IST is the product of research at La Trobe University in Melbourne and
is sold in 40 countries around the world, handling unstructured data in a
very wide range of areas in and outside academia. It is used in research
areas including social, health, legal, educational, literary, historical,
business, evaluation and policy research. A spin-off company of La Trobe
University, Qualitative Solutions and Research, now develops and markets
the software, and it is marketed worldwide by Sage Publications, the
international qualitative research publishers.
NUD*IST runs on IBM/PC and Macintosh computers, in identical graphical user
interface. Researchers can move swiftly between tasks on multiple windows,
with visual display of index system, on-screen indexing for documents,
editing of documents or memos, and rapid access via menus and dialogue
boxes to the many interlinked processes available.
WORKSHOP TRAINING IN NUD*IST
Participants at all QSR workshops are given handouts and free demonstration
diskettes which contain a tutorial.
Associate Professor Lyn Richards is a Reader in Sociology at La Trobe
University, author or co-author of three books on Australian family life
and principal researcher of three major projects on family and health.
With Associate Professor Tom Richards she developed the NUD*IST software
and had authored chapters and papers in international collections on
qualitative computing, most recently the chapter on using computers in the
Handbook of Qualitative Research edited by Denzin and Lincoln (Sage, 1994).
OUTCOMES:
Participants in QSR workshops will learn how to
*start a project and quickly get going with analysis
*store and retrieve documents
*record factual information, write and edit a memo about the document,
*search for words, phrases, or patterns of characters
*do automatic coding
*on-screen indexing of documents,
*find passages of text and the ideas in them,
*learn new techniques for interpretation and analysis,
*record emerging theoretical understanding,
*search for combinations of indexing
*store and build on answers to questions,
*test theories or hypotheses and link with numerical analysis.
PROGRAM FOR THE ONE-DAY WORKSHOP
This workshop will teach and demonstrate on computer the main processes
available in the NUD*IST software for managing data and ideas, and linking
them.
The day will cover:
Morning:
Introducing and understanding the program,
starting a project,
preparing and introducing documents (online or offline)
break
starting an index system
coding and data management processes
storing ideas in memos.
Afternoon:
ways of asking questions;
text searching
saving the answers and building on them
break
searching the index system
building and testing theories
automating processes by command files
For enquiries about the workshop: jknuf at ukcc.uky.edu (Joachim Knuf)
For enquiries about the software: Qualitative Solutions and Research, Box
171, La Trobe University Post Office, Victoria, 3083, Australia. Telephone
(+61 3) 459 1699. Fax (+61 3) 479 1441. Email help at qsr.latrobe.edu.au.
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