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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.
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.
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 database 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.
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.
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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