Drawing a " map" of an article's structure in an old-school "mind-mapping" way turned out to clarify yet some perspectives that I had not considered before. Without going into detail on the specifics, I will say that visually representating the "signal path" from idea, through hypotheses, outcomes and results and marking the paths with possible theories strips an article of all the plus-minus BS that one so often can find in a text, and states how valid and stable the summing of a study is (not in all cases, naturally).
Having several hypotheses on the go was also something I didn't think of before we drew the lines- each with a quote stating how likely this one hypothesis was to another. What was the final outcome. This is easy to get back to as qualitative research so often wants to prove a theory, hypothesis or an idea and rarely focuses on speculations around it.
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