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One-Way ANOVA Calculator. How To Cite Social Media In Scholarly Writing. How To Cite Social Media In Research by TeachThought Staff Back in 2012, we shared how to cite a tweet. We followed that up with how to cite an app. So when we saw the very useful teachbytes graphic above making some noise on pinterest on several different popular #edtech websites, it reminded us of the constant demands changing technologies place on existing ways we do business.

When and in what contexts it makes sense to cite social media content is probably a more relevant post than sharing a graphic that simply shows the format, but they’re both nice to have, yes? Citation Style Of course, citation style matters, and the two most popular are the APA and MLA. The APA (American Psychological Association) has their rules for citing social media in academic writing. And to an extent, this makes sense. How To Cite Social Media In Scholarly Writing.

Ask Dr. Math. EXCEL Statistics tutorials paired t-test. Paired t-test Using Microsoft Excel These tutorials briefly explain the use and interpretation of standard statistical analysis techniques. The examples include how-to instructions for Excel. Although there are different version of Excel in use, these should work about the same for most recent versions.

They also assume that you have installed the Excel Analysis Pak which is free and comes with Excel (Go to Tools, Addins... if it is not already installed in your version of Excel.) See www.stattutorials.com/EXCELDATA for files mentioned in this tutorial, © TexaSoft, 2008 Performing a Paired t-test in Excel To compare two paired values (such as in a before-after situation) where both observations are taken from the same or matched subjects, you can perform a paired t- For example, suppose your data contained the variables BEFORE and AFTER, (before and after weight on a diet), for 8 subjects. The hypotheses for this test are: 3. Who would be a librarian now? You know what, I'll have a go | Public Leaders Network. “Who would want to become a librarian now?” Asked an anonymous public servant on National Libraries Day, seeing before them a graveyard of dead libraries and old reference desks filled by volunteers.

A valid question, and one to which I’ll reply: “You know what? I’ll have a go.” I’m training to be a professional librarian, having just finished a lecture on “semantic web ontologies” and “linked data”, and sat dumbstruck in front of a “Dewey Decimal assembler” without a clue as to what I’m looking at. The course is challenging – it’s a three-year master’s degree that bites eye-watering chunks out of my wages.

The fact is, I can’t not. Forget all about reading as a pleasure, forget that children should have unlimited access to books, throw away arguments about libraries being lifelines for those less fortunate – they’re falling on deaf ears. Don’t get me wrong, I love the internet: its ability to navigate through information is a miracle of our time. Student's T Test. LIS%20630%20ResMethods Syllabus fall11. LSC675KimSpring2012. SYLLABUS%20EDUCATIONAL%20RESEARCH%20METHODS,%20University%20of%20Massachusets%20IC4. ED508samplesyllabus.