In more detail
Spoken language is hard to read on a slide or in a thesis. A refined quote removes fillers and false starts, or shortens an extract, so the meaning is clear to a reader. How much to tidy is a methodological decision, and many researchers mark omissions with an ellipsis and describe their convention in the method section.
Refined wording is for presentation only. The verbatim quote remains the record, and a reader should be able to trace any refined quote back to it.
In Themescape
The template has a refined_quote column beside the quote column. Where a row has refined wording, the viewer shows it in the reader and in Present mode, and search looks through it. The quote column is never edited. Rows without refined wording show the verbatim quote.
A short example
From the Working Well dataset
Boundaries and Overwork
Working definition: Blurred Work Hours: the working day extending without a clear start or finish.
Blurred Work Hours > Morning Bleed
Verbatim: "I open my laptop before breakfast and the day just bleeds into the evening." Refined, as in the template's example row: "The day bleeds into the evening." Made up data, nothing from a real study.