- A Web of Online Dictionaries. URL: http://www.yourdictionary.com/
The site describes itself as "the world's most comprehensive and authoritative
language community portal with every resource needed for language study and improvement in
more than 200 languages." The site also includes links under the following headings: Multilingual Dictionaries, Specialty English
Dictionaries, Thesauri and Other Vocabulary Aids, Language Identifiers and Guessers, An
Index of Dictionary Indices, A Web of On-line Grammars, and A Web of
Linguistic Fun.
- Psychology Resources.
URL: http://www.psychologyresources.net/
Because the internet is so largely organized around commercial and entertainment material,
the academic researcher may encounter inherent challenges in conducting quality research.
A great many sites and documents of interest to students and researchers exist on the
internet that are not easily found through the more accessible search vehicles. This site
contains general instruction and many links to assist the psychology researcher.
- Merriam-Webster on line.
URL: http://www.merriam-webster.org/ This site includes a searchable dictionary, searchable
thesaurus, and several other features of interest to writers.
- Style Manuals. This
page of twelve style manuals, all available on-line, is a product of the Herrick Memorial
Library at Alfred University: URL: http://www.herr.alfred.edu/style.htm
- A Web of On-line
Grammars. URL: http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/grammars.html
This page maintains links with on-line grammars of as many languages as can be found on
the Web. It includes all types of grammars: reference grammars, learning grammars, and
historical grammars. Grammars are selected for their accuracy and effectiveness for
learning the language they describe. All are free unless otherwise indicated.
- Refdesk.com URL: http://www.refdesk.com/
This site includes an extensive, searchable, collection of links "on three levels:
quick, studied and deep." Facts At A Glance is an alphabetical list of links to ready
reference sites with everything from college rankings to a zip code finder. Current News
and Facts includes links to newspapers, magazines, headline news, etc. Refdesk's
Categories is an alphabetical list of subject links. Facts Finders links to encyclopedias
and other sources of facts. Just for Fun, Help and Advice, and Reference Site of the Day
sections round off the site.
- American Factfinder
(US Census Bureau). URL: http://factfinder.census.gov/java_prod/dads.ui.homePage.HomePage
This is "a new data access and dissemination system that provides useful facts and
information about your community, your economy, and your society. The system will find and
retrieve the information you need from some of the Census Bureau's largest data
sets." Users can create a variety of tables, reports, or maps with information on
their community, the economy, or American society. There are three methods to access data:
Quick Tables, Thematic Maps, and Business and Industry Reports, which offer reports on the
most widely used statistics; Detailed Tables, which require several choices (such as time
frame and geographic area); and Build A Query, which requires a few more steps. Also has
help files, a FAQ, and is searchable.
- Writer's Guidelines. Everything you need to know about writing for Techniques
magazine
URL: http://www.acteonline.org/publications.html
Techniques is an award-winning magazine, published eight times a year, that
brings all members news about legislation affecting career and technical education,
in-depth features on issues and programs, profiles of educators and other newsmakers,
notices of new products, Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) events and
more.
- DAS on the WEB URL: http://www.pedar-das.org/ The Data Analysis System
(DAS) is a Windows software tool that allows access to Department of Education survey
data. The DAS generates tables specified by users who "tag" row and column
variables of interest to them. The output tables contain the estimates (usually
percentages of students) and corresponding standard errors which are calculated taking
into account the complex sampling designs used in NCES surveys. In addition, the DAS
software can create correlation matrices that can be used as input for most popular
statistical software programs for multivariate analysis. There is a separate DAS for each
survey data set, and all have a consistent interface and command structure.
- User-Friendly Handbook for Project
Evaluation: Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education
URL: http://red.www.nsf.gov/EHR/RED/EVAL/handbook/handbook.htm
This Handbook was developed to provide Principal Investigators and Project Evaluators
working with the National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Education and Human
Resource Development (EHR) with a basic understanding of selected approaches to
evaluation. It is aimed at people who need to learn more about both what evaluation can do
and how to do an evaluation, rather than those who already have a solid base of experience
in the field. It builds on firmly established principles, blending technical knowledge and
common sense to meet the special needs of NSF’s programs and projects and those
involved in them.
- WWW Virtual Library: Statistics
URL: http://www.stat.ufl.edu/vlib/statistics.html
(Univ. of Florida) A list of known Web Information Systems relating to Statistics.
Australia, Canada, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States. Others: CHANCE
Database; CompStat; Central Statistical Office (Macro-Economic Time Series Data); JASA
Data Archive; Netlib (Mathematical and Statistical Software); PASE; StatLib Index; U.S.
Census Bureau.
- Statistics Glossary http://www.cas.lancs.ac.uk/glossary_v1.1/main.html From the UCLA Statistics textbook on the Web. Basic Definitions;
Presenting Data; Sampling; Probability; Confidence Intervals; Hypothesis Testing; Paired
Data, Correlation and Regression; Design of Experiments and ANOVA; Categorical Data;
Non-parametric Methods; Time Series Data; Alphabetical Index of All Entries.
- Internet Glossary of Statistical Terms
http://www.animatedsoftware.com/statglos/statglos.htm These glossary entries have been prepared to accompany a computer
tutorial based on the book "Statistics Explained" by Professor Howard S.
Hoffman. That book was originally published in 1985 by University Press of America
(Library of Congress Catalog number ISBN 0-8191-4894-6). The tutorial will provide
the background necessary for a full understanding of these glossary entries.
- A Web of on-line dictionaries http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html
This website indexes on-line dictionaries, thesauri, and such like containing words and
phrases. Preference in selection has been given to free online dictionaries of high
quality. However, downloadable and subscription materials are listed if exceptionally rare
and/or unusually well-executed. A few inceptive word lists of languages otherwise not
represented have also been included, as encouragement to continued development. Roget's Thesaurus http://www.thesaurus.com/ Viewers can browse
the thesaurus through the alphabetical index of headwords or through the six broad
categories into which Mr. Roget classified the entire vocabulary of the English language:
abstract relations, space, matter, intellect, volition, and affection.
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/ This is a searchable data base of many authors' works.Online Technical Writing: Online Textbook http://www.io.com/~hcexres/tcm1603/acchtml/acctoc.html
This text is used by students in online technical-communication courses worldwide as well
as the online version of TCM1603, Introduction to Technical Communication, taught by David
A. McMurrey, at Austin Community College (ACC) in Austin, Texas USA. Please see
Independent Noncredit Courses in Technical Communications for courses you can take based
on this online textbook.
- Web Pages that Perform Statistical
Calculations! Over 300 Links -- And Growing! (updated 04/21/99) URL: http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javastat.html
The web pages listed here comprise a powerful, convenient, accessible, and FREE
multi-platform statistical software package. There are also links to online statistics
books, tutorials, downloadable software, and related resources. The pages are located on
servers all over the world, and are the result of much cleverness and hard work on the
part of some very talented individuals.
- Research Methods Knowledge Base
URL: http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/kb/
- Research Design Explained
URL: http://spsp.clarion.edu/mm/RDE3/start/
Topics covered include Psychology and Science, Generating Research Hypotheses, Measuring
and Manipulating Variables, Choosing the Best Measure for your Study, Internal Validity,
The Simple Experiment, The Multiple Group Experiment, Factorial Designs, Within-Subjects
Designs, Reading and Evaluating Research, Single-n Experiments and Quasi-Experiments,
Introduction to Descriptive Methods, Survey Research, and Writing Research Proposals and
Reports.
- APA-Style Helper.
URL: http://members.apa.org/knowledge/
Starting in November, 1998, APA made available [for sale] a new
software program for students, APA-Style Helper. Currently at release 1.5, Style Helper
provides a simple method for creating a new manuscript and building a reference list in
the proper format. Also included is a "Help File" with references to the APA
Publications Manual. This product is for beginning writers. The current release only works
with Windows computers using Microsoft Word 97. URL for details: http://www.apa.org/apa-style/ Future releases
will work on Apple Macintosh computers and with leading word processing software. Under
development now is a Professional Style Helper to provide options for managing citations
and automatically loading them from PsycINFO Online.
- APA Guidelines on How to Cite
Information from the Internet and from the World Wide Web http://www.apa.org/journals/webref.html
- APA Guidelines for Posting Unpublished
and Published Work on the Internet. URL: http://www.apa.org/journals/posting.html
- Citing Websites [MLA style and APA style
illustrations] http://www.iss.stthomas.edu/webtruth/citation.htm
Writing Effective Web Pages:
What to Do, and What Not to Do http://www.iss.stthomas.edu/webtruth/content.htm
Electronic Sources: APA
Style of Citations [extensive listing of how to cite several types of published and
unpublished documents] http://www.uvm.edu/~ncrane/estyles/apa.html
Electronic Sources: MLA Style
of Citations - 4th Edition [extensive listing of how to cite several types of published
and unpublished documents] http://www.uvm.edu/~ncrane/estyles/mla.html
On Line English Grammar
[Extensive grammar assistance] http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/index.cfm
This grammar has been put on-line by Anthony Hughes and is available free of charge for
anyone to use. However, copyright applies to the grammar and a copyright notice can be
found on the first web page. The author would appreciate it if users would respect the
copyright and contact him should any they want to use the grammar in any way that may
infringe on the copyright.
Grammar, Punctuation, and
Capitalization: A Handbook for Technical Writers and Editors http://stipo.larc.nasa.gov/sp7084/index.html
This 108 page publication (including a pdf version available for downloading and printing)
was written by Mary K. McCaskill, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia.
A Guide for Writing
Research Papers based on Styles Recommended by The American Psychological Association
http://webster.commnet.edu/apa/apa_index.htm
This guide is based on a document prepared in 1995 by Patricia S. Burgess, Ph.D., a
volunteer staff member for America Online, and subsequently modified and updated for use
on the World Wide Web by members of the Humanities Department and library staff at Capital
Community-Technical College in Hartford, Connecticut. In March and April of 1997, it was
modified to its present question-and-answer format.
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