Tiptoeing into quantitative

Part 1, January 19, 2006

Project MUSE -- start at electronic resources page http://library.uncc.edu
we’ll continue with last week’s topics OR magic realism, Jerome McGann, Bakhtin

LexisNexis – start at electronic resources page
we will search for NC cases using Judge Lake as the judge

Online lexicons part #1

MEMEM http://etext.virginia.edu/memem.query.html OR http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/memem

we’ll search just by quotation

Online literary concordances

Romantics http://www.dundee.ac.uk/english/wics/wics.htm

What is text analysis

http://tapor.humanities.mcmaster.ca/html/p_desc_what_is.html

Intro to empirical approaches in rhetoric

http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/index.cfm?guides_active=empirical&category1=18&category2=19

chi square: http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/qmss/chi_ques.html

Data for practicing add’em and chart’em in excel:

ron-envelope envelope-tapeR envelope data cleaned-up data

Part 2, February 2 will be expanded on its own agenda

More online tools

Chi-square and corpora

Practice with CENTRA

http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/webtools/web_chi_tut.html
or
http://graphpad.com/quickcalcs/contingency1.cfm

we'll use some data in an excel spread sheet for graphic, then import into spss, then simple descriptive, then chi square:

corpus introduction http://assets.cambridge.org/052180/8790/sample/0521808790ws.pdf