imagine you are a new faculty member in a large university psychology department. You need to develop a PowerPoint presentation for your Dean on the benefits and disadvantages of purchasing a qualitative software program by the department.

Describe the software program of interest to you.

Provide concrete advantages and disadvantages of using qualitative software programs in general.

Include information that reflects the merits and drawbacks of the software program that is of interest to you.

Include information that reflects the merits and drawbacks of manual analysis.

Provide a recommendation to the dean concerning whether a software program would be beneficial and effective or whether researchers in the department should use manual analysis.