Won has pages of transcribed interviews for her thesis on first generation college students' feelings of stress and anxiety. Of the following, which is something she should do to help her to manage these data?
A) Separate her data and read one person's data at a time.
B) Get an initial sense and read through all of her data.
C) Start to read her data only after identifying codes.
D) Establish a matrix to place student comments in before she reads.

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Getting an initial sense and reading through all of the data will help Won to get a broad understanding of the themes and patterns present in her data, and allow her to identify potential areas for coding and analysis. This can also help her to identify any gaps or inconsistencies in the data that may need to be addressed before moving forward with analysis. Once she has a general understanding of her data, she can then more effectively separate and code individual data sets, or create a matrix to organize her data for analysis.

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