Quantifyings,
find something in your data to count (if you have already done your quantifying, great!) and see what your initial findings point to - can you narrow it down any further by couning hyponyms of what you initially counted e.g. interrogatives is a hypernym of the hyponyms tag, rhetorical, open and closed questions (and maybe even cloaked imperatives!)?
Are means, modes, medians and the range useful to know?
What about outlying figures (possible anomalies)? How big an effect do they have on your findings (find out by calculating without them as well as with them - include both sets of figures if quantifying without them is revealing)? How far do each set of findings support your hypothesis?
Be prepared to discuss this with me as I come around to support you. I will want to know what you are quantifying and why and any preliminary results you have obtained and how they relate to theory.
Ask me for help as necessary!
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