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It's a standard qualitative technique and a natural fit for the mindmap.",[18,19,21],"h2",{"id":20},"when-to-use-it","When to use it",[23,24,25,29,32],"ul",{},[26,27,28],"li",{},"You have a corpus of qualitative or mixed-method papers and want to see what's recurring.",[26,30,31],{},"You're synthesizing interview, ethnographic, or case-study work.",[26,33,34],{},"You're trying to find structure in a body of claims that resist a clean chronological or methodological organization.",[14,36,37,38,42,43],{},"It's the right workflow when the question is ",[39,40,41],"em",{},"\"what are people talking about?\""," more than ",[39,44,45],{},"\"who's right?\"",[18,47,49],{"id":48},"step-1-generate-candidate-themes","Step 1 — Generate candidate themes",[14,51,52],{},"Don't start from your own guesses. Ask the agent to look at the corpus first:",[54,55,56],"blockquote",{},[14,57,58],{},"Read across the project's KB and propose 5–8 recurring themes in how authors discuss the Late Bronze Age collapse. For each theme, give a short label, a 1–2 sentence definition, and the papers that engage with it.",[14,60,61],{},"The agent runs a broad pass and returns candidate themes — typically as a list, not yet attached to a mindmap structure.",[18,63,65],{"id":64},"step-2-curate-the-theme-set","Step 2 — Curate the theme set",[14,67,68],{},"Review what the agent surfaced:",[23,70,71,78,84,90],{},[26,72,73,77],{},[74,75,76],"strong",{},"Merge"," themes that are obviously the same idea wearing different labels.",[26,79,80,83],{},[74,81,82],{},"Split"," themes that bundle two distinct ideas.",[26,85,86,89],{},[74,87,88],{},"Drop"," themes you don't find useful for your analysis.",[26,91,92,95],{},[74,93,94],{},"Add"," themes the agent missed that you know to be important.",[14,97,98],{},"A useful theme set is usually 4–7 themes. More than that and the analysis flattens.",[18,100,102],{"id":101},"step-3-build-the-thematic-map","Step 3 — Build the thematic map",[14,104,105],{},"Create a top-level node per theme and ask the agent to populate each one:",[54,107,108],{},[14,109,110],{},"For each of these themes, create a subtree. Under each theme, add claims from the KB illustrating how authors engage with it. Include disagreements as sibling nodes.",[14,112,113],{},"The Researcher pulls citations per theme; the Editor lays them out. Selection scoping helps here — do one theme at a time if you want tighter focus per pass.",[18,115,117],{"id":116},"step-4-look-for-cross-theme-patterns","Step 4 — Look for cross-theme patterns",[14,119,120],{},"Themes rarely exist in isolation. The interesting structure is usually in the relationships:",[54,122,123],{},[14,124,125],{},"Looking across these themes, identify pairs that frequently co-occur in the same papers, and pairs that appear to be in tension. For each, create a node summarizing the relationship and citing the relevant works.",[14,127,128,129,132],{},"These cross-theme nodes often become the most useful part of the analysis — they're where the ",[39,130,131],{},"interpretation"," lives.",[18,134,136],{"id":135},"step-5-define-and-refine","Step 5 — Define and refine",[14,138,139],{},"For each theme, write a definition that fixes its meaning for your work:",[23,141,142,145],{},[26,143,144],{},"Open the theme's root node and write a clear definition as the node's own claim.",[26,146,147],{},"The definition is your call, not the agent's — themes are interpretive constructs.",[14,149,150],{},"Once defined, ask the agent to check fit:",[54,152,153],{},[14,154,155],{},"Re-evaluate the claims under each theme against the definition I've written. Flag any that don't fit and suggest where they might belong instead.",[18,157,159],{"id":158},"step-6-report","Step 6 — Report",[14,161,162,163,168],{},"A thematic analysis is usually written up in roughly the order of the map: themes, then cross-theme relationships, then interpretation. See ",[164,165,167],"a",{"href":166},".\u002Foutlining-a-paper","Outlining a Paper"," for restructuring the map into a draft outline.",[18,170,172],{"id":171},"tips","Tips",[23,174,175,181,187],{},[26,176,177,180],{},[74,178,179],{},"Coding is iterative."," Expect to merge, split, and rename themes several times. 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