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SOC 91 Research Methods
Labs |
DRAFT : NOT
FINAL!!!!
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Take names of first year class. Clean up. Sort. Pivot
table. Look up on census web site. Writeup simple
hypothesis. Print out formatted page?
Skills
Download spreadsheet. Save to personal file server. Open
with Excel (not through Internet Explorer). Adjust column
size. Sort data by column. Copy paste column
(values). Drag autofill.
Use library databases to find journalistic
articles about
social isolation article. Also NYT and NPR. Look up ASA
citation formats and assemble bibliography. Read two accounts and
answer question 3 on page 19. Contribute to class data set about
coverage of this article. Decide on how to record if our goal is
to characterize diffusion of the story and who gets what right and what
spins appear where.
In
this lab session
you should learn how read tables and charts and how to format tables
and charts and to
incorporate them into a Word document.
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