Use Text Analysis to Clarify the
Intentions of Your Own Writing
This recipe uses frequency lists and concordances to determine the impact and clarity of your own writing in meeting your objectives.
This recipe is available as a PDF download.Ingredients
- A sample or complete text or you own;
- A List Words tool such as the TAPoR List Words Tool
- A Concordance tool such as the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool
This recipe needs a good exercise to demonstrate how to Use Text Analysis Tools to Clarify the Intentions of Your Own Writing?.Steps
- Appreciate the message you are hoping to communicate in your prose;
- Generate a list of most frequently used words in your document with a List Words tool such as the TAPoR List Words Tool;
- Evaluate the closeness of the words returned to your desired message;
- Explore possibly contradictory words through the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool;
- Modify your text to better reflect your intentions.
Glossary
A Complete GlossaryNext Steps/Further Information
- List of All Recipes
- Exercise to Use Text Analysis Tools to Clarify the Intentions of Your Own Writing?
- Help with Particular Tools
- Background on Text Analysis
- Information about the TAPoR Concordance Tool
- Information about the TAPoR List Words Tool