Write the report's introduction, including a brief history of qualitative methods and your motivation for choosing qualitative methods. Indicate whether you have combined your qualitative methods with any quantitative ones. Stress the relevance of qualitative methods for your research; for example, explain that you are studying social attitudes toward euthanasia, and that qualitative methods are the best choice for considering people's attitudes and feelings.
Pose the problem of your research. For instance, if a person prefers not to suffer a fatal illness, he may turn to an agency that will help him commit suicide. Explain that you will analyze the issues society will face if it permits this practice.
State the purpose of your research. For example, explain that you wish to find out public opinion on the potential activities mentioned above.
Introduce your theoretical assumption, or hypothesis. For example, "People have negative attitudes toward these potential activities, considering them legally approved murders."
Explain how you collected your data. Reflect all steps of constructing the sample and determining the number of people to interview. List their names and statuses if you have their permission.
Emphasize that you have collected reliable data by choosing reliable experts and collection methods.
Detail the characteristics of the recordings (in hours) and the transcripts (in pages) obtained throughout the study.
Organize clusters of similar opinions from your sample, and support them with up to three quotations from the transcripts per cluster.
Comment on your findings, comparing them to the results of well-known researchers if such studies are available.
Indicate whether you proved your hypothesis, and offer some ideas regarding why or why not.
Stress again, in the conclusion, that you have fulfilled all of the tasks posed in your research problem. Summarize the tasks.