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Research Guide: Qualitative and Quantitative Research Tools (ALS101)

This guide was created to support the course Academic Discourse (ALS101). The guide points to useful electronic and print resources and software tools for students interested in qualitative and quantitative research.

SPSS

The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) is a widely used program for statistical analysis in the social sciences. The software package is capable of logical batched and non-batched statistical analysis

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Voyant

Voyant Tools is a web-based text reading and analysis environment. Its user-friendly interface allows you to work with your own text or collection of texts in a variety of formats, including plain text, HTML, XML, PDF, RTF, and MS Word. 

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NVivo

NVivo is software that supports qualitative and mixed methods research, helping you organize, analyze and find insights in unstructured, or qualitative data. This includes interviews, open-ended survey responses, articles, social media and web content.

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