Analysis is the active and interpretive process or processes researchers undertake with research evidence that leads to what sense is made and what meanings are assigned. When I was involved in my PhD research, it seemed that manyoff-taskactivities contained connections to my particular study-I noticed them and they stimulated steps-sometimes leaps-forward in my analysis. What is thought important from the scrutiny of evidence depends, in part, on researcher responses to happeningsbeyondthe study. In this article, I identify three conditions of analysis that may increase the likelihood of such connections occurring to researchers, which link to abductive analysis: take your time, value prompts from "off-task" influences, and backward map.
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