Complex sentence: Qualitative research, on the other hand, inquires deeply into specific experiences, with the intention of describing and exploring meaning through text, narrative, or visual-based data by developing themes and patterns exclusive to that set of participants.
Split into simpler sentences: Qualitative research, on the other hand, inquires into boarder phenomena, with the aim to describe and explore, by collecting word, narrative, or visual-based data. The researcher analyses qualitative data for themes and patterns exclusive to that set of participants.