In this Integration section, we look at ways of getting a final picture or conclusions from the material we have gathered. Even from a 230 word text such as in my Food Policy case study, a vast amount of analysis material can be generated. This material can be derived from each of the methods I have described:-

• Discourse Toolbox
• Context Analysis
• Organisational Analysis

We need to find ways of working on this material to extract useful information from it, in a form that a reader will find easy and informative.

I have included a typical set of conclusions from my Case Study, as one example of the way the analysis material can be used.

A second way of using the material is with the dispositive - this is a particular way of looking at the material gathered by the 3 methods, particularly focussing on its consistency and discrepancies - areas where there are cracks in reality, or where problems have been papered over

However, there are other ways of reaching a final conclusion, or of integrating the material form all the parts of the study -

• we may carry out a historical study, as in the Sustainability page
• having got "the big picture", we may focus on a field of particular interest, such as the study here on Animals
• we may generate a clearer view of "the marketplace" and the strategies of "the players", such as in the page on Government
• we may carry out more studies and research, as is suggested by the page on Psychology
• or, we may help to create a revised vesion of the document we have worked (e.g. Aims and Objectives in this case)

I have included the summary and commentary from my Food Case Study, and there is a discussion page which looks at the validity of my approach and the techniques I have used. In its briefest form, the conclusion is that:- There is a process of industrialisation of food and farming. This is quite well known, but ignored by almost everyone, perhaps for obscure psychological reasons.

Please contact me if you are interested in my Discourse Consultancy Service.

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