Useful Resources for Student Projects

Model consent form

This will be useful for students undertaking projects involving human testers

InStat Guide to Choosing and Interpreting Statistical Tests

If you need to use statistics in your analysis, this is a nice, on-line guide which may help you.

Affect and effect

These two words are easy to confuse. Purdue University has kindly produced a webpage which explains the difference.

Books

Bryson, Bill (2004) Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right, Broadway Books
May help you to avoid easily-made errors. A bit like March (2007), below - but not free.

Dawson (2000) The Essence of Computing Projects: A Student's Guide, Prentice-Hall. (SK 7.2 DAW)

Hewson, C Internet Research Methods: A Practical Guide for the Social and Behavioural Sciences Sage Publications.
A lot of my students have used the internet as a means of collecting data from people. This book is a useful resource for finding out how best to handle this kind of approach.

Marsh, David (2007)  GuardianStyle, Guardian Books
The language style guide used by the Guardian newspaper - a useful (and free!) guide, including some of the every-day errors that are worth avoiding.


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