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-- JosephDung - 18 Feb 2011
Scenario for Peter:
- Peter is given an assignment on Hobbes and Locke
- He realizes he needs a quick accessible tool to help him analyze the texts.
- He searches online for available tools using Google
- He comes across the TAPoR portal
- He notices the TAPoR portal for word frequency list tools
- He finds that the TAPoRware word list tool has been marked as a popular
- He notices the Try it option where he gets to choose how to enter in his own texts
- He chooses to submit texts using the URL option
- He gets the plain text copy of Hobbes' "Leviathan" from Project Guthenberg using the above option
- He runs the Leviathan through the List words tool
- He experiments with TAPoRwarestop word list
- He finds the volume 1 and 2 of the essay "Human Understanding" by Locke
- He runs through the word frequency on Locke
- He is interested in the occurrence of particular words
- He finds an interesting word and goes back to the concordance tool for word context
- On the Leviathan, the word "power" occurs 745 times
- Peter gets an idea of how many times that word is used
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