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AV1000
Index to readings and reference materials by topic

This page indexes the local materials cited in the course Calendar.

  1. Electronic communications and publishing
  2. Text-analysis
  3. Numerical and graphical analysis
  4. Relational analysis
  5. Supplementary topics

I. Electronic communications and publishing

A. Concepts

  1. The Internet and WWW: basic concepts and terms
  2. Design on the Web

B. Methods

  1. How to find things online, with exercises
  2. Evaluating Web-sites, with exercises

C. Basic technical skills

  1. Elementary HTML: Introduction; Links & frames; Tables
  2. Structured layout

II. Text-analysis

A. Concepts and methods

  1. The basics of concording
  2. Method in text-analysis
  3. Markup
  4. Constraints on text-analysis

B. Practical work

  1. Exercises
    1. Keywords and context (the Stephen corpus)
    2. Corpus analysis of meaning (the OJ Simpson corpus)
    3. Explorations in large corpora
      1. Speeches of Fidel Castro (in translation)
      2. David Irving trial transcripts
      3. Speeches of Tony Blair
      4. Salem Witch Trials transcripts
  2. Resources
    1. Cleaning up your corpus
    2. BNC frequency list. Companion website for Geoffrey Leech, Paul Rayson and Andrew Wilson, Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English (Longman, 2001). A handy list of word-frequencies in written and spoken British English may be found at this site [X].

III. Numerical and graphical analysis

A. Concepts and methods

  1. Functions of the spreadsheet
  2. Basic operations
  3. Making charts

B. Practical work

  1. Demographic: (1) Voting in the General Elections 1974–2005; (2-3) Demographics of London: two problems
  2. Text-analytic: Distribution of words (4) "Time" of the Dome, (5) Women in Volpone
  3. Environmental: (6) Pollution in Hackney 1998

IV. Relational analysis

A. Concepts and methods

  1. Introduction to tabular data analysis
  2. Bibliographic data management
  3. The relational model
  4. Data modelling

B. Practical work

  1. Library collection: (1) Single-table (flatfile) database; (2) Two-table (relational) database
  2. Music-CD collection: Traditional & contemporary African
  3. Buildings and monuments: Listed Buildings System

V. Supplementary topics

  1. How to write an essay-report
  2. Computing and life
  3. Basic technical knowledge and terminology
  4. Imaging

revised November 2007