This will be useful for students undertaking projects involving human testers
If you need to use statistics in your analysis, this is a nice, on-line guide which may help you.
These two words are easy to confuse. Purdue University has kindly produced a webpage which explains the difference.
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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