Session seven

How to translate non-English text into English? Use free online machine translation. Babel Fish is the most popular. Google for 'online translation from x to English' if it's not on Babelfish. Those tools usually can translate copy'n'paste text as well as websites. Quality is poor, but usually you can get a gist of whether it's useful or not.

Hourglass paper: broad introduction, specific study, method, results, discussion broadens again.

Good book: Jane E. Miller, The Chicago Guide to Writing About Numbers, University of Chicago Press

Interviews (or generally, qualitative data): look how you are using the words: quotes, others? See if you can improve it, use it 'better'.




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