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Identify Themes within a Text

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Exercise Steps

  1. This exercise uses Volume 2 of Thomas Macaulay's History of England which can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg.
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  1. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool to generate a word list sorted by frequency. The result should resemble the following:
    Word Count
    The------3591
    Of------2057
    And------1360
    To------1234
    A------850
    Was------848
    In------758
    Had------686
    Been------265
    Be------255
    Not------246
    At------240
    On------213
    From------212
    Who------201
    They------187
    Their------174
    All------153
    King------139

    The most frequently used words are function words such as 'The', 'A', etc. They don't appear to be particularly unique, so we decide to eliminate common function words.


  2. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. One useful stop list, the Glasgow stop words list, is available here. The result should be similar to:
    Word Count
    King------139
    Great------115
    Parliament------92
    England------86
    House------83
    Men------81
    Time------75
    Government------74
    Charles------73
    Power------68
    Party------66
    Public------59
    Years------57
    France------56
    Long------56
    English------55
    Court------54
    Commons------53
    State------52
    Church------51
    New------46
    Man------46
    Country------46

    The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


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  1. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool to generate a word list sorted by frequency. The result should resemble the following:
    Word Count
    The------3591
    Of------2057
    And------1360
    To------1234
    A------850
    Was------848
    In------758
    Had------686
    Been------265
    Be------255
    Not------246
    At------240
    On------213
    From------212
    Who------201
    They------187
    Their------174
    All------153
    King------139

    The most frequently used words are function words such as 'The', 'A', etc. They don't appear to be particularly unique, so we decide to eliminate common function words.


  2. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. One useful stop list, the Glasgow stop words list, is available here. The result should be similar to:
    Word Count
    King------139
    Great------115
    Parliament------92
    England------86
    House------83
    Men------81
    Time------75
    Government------74
    Charles------73
    Power------68
    Party------66
    Public------59
    Years------57
    France------56
    Long------56
    English------55
    Court------54
    Commons------53
    State------52
    Church------51
    New------46
    Man------46
    Country------46

    The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.
  1. Now that we have found some interesting words to explore, let's see how these are used within the context of the text.
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  1. Using the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool will list places in the text that a particular word appears.
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  1. Using the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool will list places in the text that a particular word appears.

  1. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

    the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

    Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.


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  1. How is power referred to in the text? Use the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

    Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.


  2. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

    Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.


  3. What is the author's attitude towards the monarchy? Use TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to see how often the words 'King' and 'Charles' occur together.

    Note that the title the King is commonly used, but not King Charles or King James. The proper name Charles is used frequently, but collocation of King and Charles are rare.

    Parliament is superior. King is ‘detested’, ‘disliked’, ‘impeached’ – moreover, never used terms ‘executed’, killed.

    The word Court is paired with a variety of disparaging terms, ‘sycophants’, ‘concealed’, ‘quarreled with’, ‘…abused’, ‘extravagance of the …’, ‘the…excited the bitter indignation’, ‘vice and folly’, ‘disliked’, ‘faithlessness of the …’, ‘seditious’

    The Commons are collocated with positive terms: ‘undoubted power’, ‘should be governed’, ‘elected’, ‘ancient and undoubted power’, ‘legally’.


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  1. How is power referred to in the text? Use the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

    Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.


  2. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

    Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.


  3. What is the author's attitude towards the monarchy? Use TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to see how often the words 'King' and 'Charles' occur together.

    Note that the title the King is commonly used, but not King Charles or King James. The proper name Charles is used frequently, but collocation of King and Charles are rare.

    Parliament is superior. King is ‘detested’, ‘disliked’, ‘impeached’ – moreover, never used terms ‘executed’, killed.

    The word Court is paired with a variety of disparaging terms, ‘sycophants’, ‘concealed’, ‘quarreled with’, ‘…abused’, ‘extravagance of the …’, ‘the…excited the bitter indignation’, ‘vice and folly’, ‘disliked’, ‘faithlessness of the …’, ‘seditious’

    The Commons are collocated with positive terms: ‘undoubted power’, ‘should be governed’, ‘elected’, ‘ancient and undoubted power’, ‘legally’.
  1. Thus, these simple tools can easily identify the themes of power, monarchy, the common man and time in Macaulay's History of England.
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Identify Themes within a Text


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Identify Themes within a Text

This exercise uses this Recipe to identify simple themes within a sample text.

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Exercise Steps

  1. This exercise uses Volume 2 of Thomas Macaulay's History of England which can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg.
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  1. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool to generate a word list sorted by frequency. The result should resemble the following: 

  Word Count
The------3591
Of------2057
And------1360
To------1234
A------850
Was------848
In------758
Had------686
Been------265
Be------255
Not------246
At------240
On------213
From------212
Who------201
They------187
Their------174
All------153
King------139
  1. The most frequently used words are function words such as 'The', 'A', etc. They don't appear to be particularly unique, so we decide to eliminate common function words.
  2. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. One useful stop list, the Glasgow stop words list, is available here. The result should be similar to:

  Word Count
King------139
Great------115
Parliament------92
England------86
House------83
Men------81
Time------75
Government------74
Charles------73
Power------68
Party------66
Public------59
Years------57
France------56
Long------56
English------55
Court------54
Commons------53
State------52
Church------51
New------46
Man------46
Country------46

The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


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  1. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool to generate a word list sorted by frequency. The result should resemble the following:
    Word Count
    The------3591
    Of------2057
    And------1360
    To------1234
    A------850
    Was------848
    In------758
    Had------686
    Been------265
    Be------255
    Not------246
    At------240
    On------213
    From------212
    Who------201
    They------187
    Their------174
    All------153
    King------139

    The most frequently used words are function words such as 'The', 'A', etc. They don't appear to be particularly unique, so we decide to eliminate common function words.


  2. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. One useful stop list, the Glasgow stop words list, is available here. The result should be similar to:
    Word Count
    King------139
    Great------115
    Parliament------92
    England------86
    House------83
    Men------81
    Time------75
    Government------74
    Charles------73
    Power------68
    Party------66
    Public------59
    Years------57
    France------56
    Long------56
    English------55
    Court------54
    Commons------53
    State------52
    Church------51
    New------46
    Man------46
    Country------46

    The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.
  1. Now that we have found some interesting words to explore, let's see how these are used within the context of the text.
  2. Using the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool will list places in the text that a particular word appears.
  3. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

    the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

    Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.


  4. How is power referred to in the text? Use the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

    Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.


  5. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

    Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.


  6. What is the author's attitude towards the monarchy? Use TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to see how often the words 'King' and 'Charles' occur together.

    Note that the title the King is commonly used, but not King Charles or King James. The proper name Charles is used frequently, but collocation of King and Charles are rare.

    Parliament is superior. King is ‘detested’, ‘disliked’, ‘impeached’ – moreover, never used terms ‘executed’, killed.

    The word Court is paired with a variety of disparaging terms, ‘sycophants’, ‘concealed’, ‘quarreled with’, ‘…abused’, ‘extravagance of the …’, ‘the…excited the bitter indignation’, ‘vice and folly’, ‘disliked’, ‘faithlessness of the …’, ‘seditious’

    The Commons are collocated with positive terms: ‘undoubted power’, ‘should be governed’, ‘elected’, ‘ancient and undoubted power’, ‘legally’.


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  1. Thus, using these simple tools easily identifies the themes of power, monarchy, the common man and time in Macaulay's History of England.
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  1. Thus, these simple tools can easily identify the themes of power, monarchy, the common man and time in Macaulay's History of England.

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Recipe 1 Exercise

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It applies a recipe to real textual example which is freely available on the Internet so you can do the steps yourself and see the results.

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  1. The most frequently used words are function words such as 'The', 'A', etc. They don't appear to be particularly unique, so we decide to eliminate common function words.
  2. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. One useful stop list, the Glasgow stop words list, is available here. The result should be similar to:
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Word Count
King------139
Great------115
Parliament------92
England------86
House------83
Men------81
Time------75
Government------74
Charles------73
Power------68
Party------66
Public------59
Years------57
France------56
Long------56
English------55
Court------54
Commons------53
State------52
Church------51
New------46
Man------46
Country------46

The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


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Word Count
King------139
Great------115
Parliament------92
England------86
House------83
Men------81
Time------75
Government------74
Charles------73
Power------68
Party------66
Public------59
Years------57
France------56
Long------56
English------55
Court------54
Commons------53
State------52
Church------51
New------46
Man------46
Country------46

The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.
  1. Now that we have found some interesting words to explore, let's see how these are used within the context of the text.
  2. Using the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool will list places in the text that a particular word appears.
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  1. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

    the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

    Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.


  2. How is power referred to in the text? Use the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

    Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.


  3. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

    Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.


  4. What is the author's attitude towards the monarchy? Use TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to see how often the words 'King' and 'Charles' occur together.

    Note that the title the King is commonly used, but not King Charles or King James. The proper name Charles is used frequently, but collocation of King and Charles are rare.

    Parliament is superior. King is ‘detested’, ‘disliked’, ‘impeached’ – moreover, never used terms ‘executed’, killed.

    The word Court is paired with a variety of disparaging terms, ‘sycophants’, ‘concealed’, ‘quarreled with’, ‘…abused’, ‘extravagance of the …’, ‘the…excited the bitter indignation’, ‘vice and folly’, ‘disliked’, ‘faithlessness of the …’, ‘seditious’

    The Commons are collocated with positive terms: ‘undoubted power’, ‘should be governed’, ‘elected’, ‘ancient and undoubted power’, ‘legally’.


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  1. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

    the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

    Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.


  2. How is power referred to in the text? Use the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

    Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.


  3. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

    Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.


  4. What is the author's attitude towards the monarchy? Use TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to see how often the words 'King' and 'Charles' occur together.

    Note that the title the King is commonly used, but not King Charles or King James. The proper name Charles is used frequently, but collocation of King and Charles are rare.

    Parliament is superior. King is ‘detested’, ‘disliked’, ‘impeached’ – moreover, never used terms ‘executed’, killed.

    The word Court is paired with a variety of disparaging terms, ‘sycophants’, ‘concealed’, ‘quarreled with’, ‘…abused’, ‘extravagance of the …’, ‘the…excited the bitter indignation’, ‘vice and folly’, ‘disliked’, ‘faithlessness of the …’, ‘seditious’

    The Commons are collocated with positive terms: ‘undoubted power’, ‘should be governed’, ‘elected’, ‘ancient and undoubted power’, ‘legally’.
  1. Thus, using these simple tools easily identifies the themes of power, monarchy, the common man and time in Macaulay's History of England.

Next Steps/Further Information

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Recipe 1 Exercise

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  1. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

    the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

    Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.


  2. How is power referred to in the text? Use the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

    Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.


  3. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

    Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.


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  1. What is the author's attitude towards the monarchy? Use TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to see how often the words 'King' and 'Charles' occur together.

    Note that the title the King is commonly used, but not King Charles or King James. The proper name Charles is used frequently, but collocation of King and Charles are rare.

    Parliament is superior. King is ‘detested’, ‘disliked’, ‘impeached’ – moreover, never used terms ‘executed’, killed.

    The word Court is paired with a variety of disparaging terms, ‘sycophants’, ‘concealed’, ‘quarreled with’, ‘…abused’, ‘extravagance of the …’, ‘the…excited the bitter indignation’, ‘vice and folly’, ‘disliked’, ‘faithlessness of the …’, ‘seditious’

    The Commons are collocated with positive terms: ‘undoubted power’, ‘should be governed’, ‘elected’, ‘ancient and undoubted power’, ‘legally’.


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  1. What is the author's attitude towards the monarchy? Use TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to see how often the words 'King' and 'Charles' occur together.

    Note that the title the King is commonly used, but not King Charles or King James. The proper name Charles is used frequently, but collocation of King and Charles are rare.

    Parliament is superior. King is ‘detested’, ‘disliked’, ‘impeached’ – moreover, never used terms ‘executed’, killed.

    The word Court is paired with a variety of disparaging terms, ‘sycophants’, ‘concealed’, ‘quarreled with’, ‘…abused’, ‘extravagance of the …’, ‘the…excited the bitter indignation’, ‘vice and folly’, ‘disliked’, ‘faithlessness of the …’, ‘seditious’

    The Commons are collocated with positive terms: ‘undoubted power’, ‘should be governed’, ‘elected’, ‘ancient and undoubted power’, ‘legally’.
  1. Thus, using these simple tools easily identifies the themes of power, monarchy, the common man and time in Macaulay's History of England.

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Recipe 1 Exercise

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Exercise Steps

  1. This exercise uses Volume 2 of Thomas Macaulay's History of England which can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg.
  2. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool to generate a word list sorted by frequency. The result should resemble the following:
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  Word Count
The------3591
Of------2057
And------1360
To------1234
A------850
Was------848
In------758
Had------686
Been------265
Be------255
Not------246
At------240
On------213
From------212
Who------201
They------187
Their------174
All------153
King------139
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  Word Count
The------3591
Of------2057
And------1360
To------1234
A------850
Was------848
In------758
Had------686
Been------265
Be------255
Not------246
At------240
On------213
From------212
Who------201
They------187
Their------174
All------153
King------139
  1. The most frequently used words are function words such as 'The', 'A', etc. They don't appear to be particularly unique, so we decide to eliminate common function words.
  2. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. One useful stop list, the Glasgow stop words list, is available here. The result should be similar to:
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  Word Count
King------139
Great------115
Parliament------92
England------86
House------83
Men------81
Time------75
Government------74
Charles------73
Power------68
Party------66
Public------59
Years------57
France------56
Long------56
English------55
Court------54
Commons------53
State------52
Church------51
New------46
Man------46
Country------46

The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


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  Word Count
King------139
Great------115
Parliament------92
England------86
House------83
Men------81
Time------75
Government------74
Charles------73
Power------68
Party------66
Public------59
Years------57
France------56
Long------56
English------55
Court------54
Commons------53
State------52
Church------51
New------46
Man------46
Country------46

The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.



  1. Now that we have found some interesting words to explore, let's see how these are used within the context of the text.
  2. Using the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool will list places in the text that a particular word appears.
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  1. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

    the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

    Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.


  2. How is power referred to in the text? Use the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

    Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.


  3. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

    Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.


  4. What is the author's attitude towards the monarchy? Use TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to see how often the words 'King' and 'Charles' occur together.

    Note that the title the King is commonly used, but not King Charles or King James. The proper name Charles is used frequently, but collocation of King and Charles are rare.

    Parliament is superior. King is ‘detested’, ‘disliked’, ‘impeached’ – moreover, never used terms ‘executed’, killed.

    The word Court is paired with a variety of disparaging terms, ‘sycophants’, ‘concealed’, ‘quarreled with’, ‘…abused’, ‘extravagance of the …’, ‘the…excited the bitter indignation’, ‘vice and folly’, ‘disliked’, ‘faithlessness of the …’, ‘seditious’

    The Commons are collocated with positive terms: ‘undoubted power’, ‘should be governed’, ‘elected’, ‘ancient and undoubted power’, ‘legally’.


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  1. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

    the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

    Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.


  2. How is power referred to in the text? Use the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

    Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.


  3. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

    Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.


  4. What is the author's attitude towards the monarchy? Use TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to see how often the words 'King' and 'Charles' occur together.

    Note that the title the King is commonly used, but not King Charles or King James. The proper name Charles is used frequently, but collocation of King and Charles are rare.

    Parliament is superior. King is ‘detested’, ‘disliked’, ‘impeached’ – moreover, never used terms ‘executed’, killed.

    The word Court is paired with a variety of disparaging terms, ‘sycophants’, ‘concealed’, ‘quarreled with’, ‘…abused’, ‘extravagance of the …’, ‘the…excited the bitter indignation’, ‘vice and folly’, ‘disliked’, ‘faithlessness of the …’, ‘seditious’

    The Commons are collocated with positive terms: ‘undoubted power’, ‘should be governed’, ‘elected’, ‘ancient and undoubted power’, ‘legally’.
  1. Thus, using these simple tools easily identifies the themes of power, monarchy, the common man and time in Macaulay's History of England.

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Exercise Steps

  1. This exercise uses Volume 2 of Thomas Macaulay's History of England which can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg.
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  1. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool to generate a word list sorted by frequency. The result should look similar to the following:
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  1. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool to generate a word list sorted by frequency. The result should resemble the following: 


  Word Count
The------3591
Of------2057
And------1360
To------1234
A------850
Was------848
In------758
Had------686
Been------265
Be------255
Not------246
At------240
On------213
From------212
Who------201
They------187
Their------174
All------153
King------139
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  1. Examining the word list does not show an immediate pattern amongst the most common words in the text. The most frequent words were common function words such as 'The', 'A', etc. They don't appear to be particularly unique, so we decide to eliminate common function words.
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  1. The most frequently used words are function words such as 'The', 'A', etc. They don't appear to be particularly unique, so we decide to eliminate common function words.

  1. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. One useful stop list, the Glasgow stop words list, is available here. The result should be similar to:
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Word Count
King------139
Great------115
Parliament------92
England------86
House------83
Men------81
Time------75
Government------74
Charles------73
Power------68
Party------66
Public------59
Years------57
France------56
Long------56
English------55
Court------54
Commons------53
State------52
Church------51
New------46
Man------46
Country------46

The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


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Word Count
King------139
Great------115
Parliament------92
England------86
House------83
Men------81
Time------75
Government------74
Charles------73
Power------68
Party------66
Public------59
Years------57
France------56
Long------56
English------55
Court------54
Commons------53
State------52
Church------51
New------46
Man------46
Country------46

The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.



  1. Now that we have found some interesting words to explore, let's see how these are used within the context of the text.
  2. Using the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool will list places in the text that a particular word appears.
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  1. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

    the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

    Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.


  2. How is power referred to in the text? Use the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

    Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.


  3. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

    Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.


  4. What is the author's attitude towards the monarchy? Use TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to see how often the words 'King' and 'Charles' occur together.

    Note that the title the King is commonly used, but not King Charles or King James. The proper name Charles is used frequently, but collocation of King and Charles are rare.

    Parliament is superior. King is ‘detested’, ‘disliked’, ‘impeached’ – moreover, never used terms ‘executed’, killed.

    The word Court is paired with a variety of disparaging terms, ‘sycophants’, ‘concealed’, ‘quarreled with’, ‘…abused’, ‘extravagance of the …’, ‘the…excited the bitter indignation’, ‘vice and folly’, ‘disliked’, ‘faithlessness of the …’, ‘seditious’

    The Commons are collocated with positive terms: ‘undoubted power’, ‘should be governed’, ‘elected’, ‘ancient and undoubted power’, ‘legally’.


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  1. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

    the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

    Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.


  2. How is power referred to in the text? Use the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

    Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.


  3. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

    Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.


  4. What is the author's attitude towards the monarchy? Use TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to see how often the words 'King' and 'Charles' occur together.

    Note that the title the King is commonly used, but not King Charles or King James. The proper name Charles is used frequently, but collocation of King and Charles are rare.

    Parliament is superior. King is ‘detested’, ‘disliked’, ‘impeached’ – moreover, never used terms ‘executed’, killed.

    The word Court is paired with a variety of disparaging terms, ‘sycophants’, ‘concealed’, ‘quarreled with’, ‘…abused’, ‘extravagance of the …’, ‘the…excited the bitter indignation’, ‘vice and folly’, ‘disliked’, ‘faithlessness of the …’, ‘seditious’

    The Commons are collocated with positive terms: ‘undoubted power’, ‘should be governed’, ‘elected’, ‘ancient and undoubted power’, ‘legally’.
  1. Thus, using these simple tools easily identifies the themes of power, monarchy, the common man and time in Macaulay's History of England.
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Exercise Steps

  1. This exercise uses Volume 2 of Thomas Macaulay's History of England which can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg.
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  1. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool to generate a word list sorted by frequency. 

  Word Count
The------3591
Of------2057
And------1360
To------1234
A------850
Was------848
In------758
Had------686
Been------265
Be------255
Not------246
At------240
On------213
From------212
Who------201
They------187
Their------174
All------153
King------139

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  1. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool to generate a word list sorted by frequency. The result should look similar to the following: 

  Word Count
The------3591
Of------2057
And------1360
To------1234
A------850
Was------848
In------758
Had------686
Been------265
Be------255
Not------246
At------240
On------213
From------212
Who------201
They------187
Their------174
All------153
King------139
  1. Examining the word list does not show an immediate pattern amongst the most common words in the text. The most frequent words were common function words such as 'The', 'A', etc. They don't appear to be particularly unique, so we decide to eliminate common function words.
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  1. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. One useful stop list, the Glasgow stop words list, is available here.
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  1. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. One useful stop list, the Glasgow stop words list, is available here. The result should be similar to:
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Word Count
King------139
Great------115
Parliament------92
England------86
House------83
Men------81
Time------75
Government------74
Charles------73
Power------68
Party------66
Public------59
Years------57
France------56
Long------56
English------55
Court------54
Commons------53
State------52
Church------51
New------46
Man------46
Country------46

The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


Let's see how these words are used within the context of the text.
  1. Using the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool will list places in the text that a particular word appears.
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Word Count
King------139
Great------115
Parliament------92
England------86
House------83
Men------81
Time------75
Government------74
Charles------73
Power------68
Party------66
Public------59
Years------57
France------56
Long------56
English------55
Court------54
Commons------53
State------52
Church------51
New------46
Man------46
Country------46

The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


  1. Now that we have found some interesting words to explore, let's see how these are used within the context of the text.
  2. Using the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool will list places in the text that a particular word appears.

  1. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

    the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

    Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.


  2. How is power referred to in the text? Use the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

    Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.


  3. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

    Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.


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 This recipe and exercise is available as a PDF download.

Exercise Steps

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  1. This exercise uses Volume 2 of Thomas Macaulay's History of England which can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg here.
1 Run the *[[http://portal.tapor.ca/portal/launchTool?toolName=List Words (Plain)&showDataBench=false][TAPoR List Words Tool]]* to generate a word list sorted by frequency. 


  Word Count
The------3591
Of------2057
And------1360
To------1234
A------850
Was------848
In------758
Had------686
Been------265
Be------255
Not------246
At------240
On------213
From------212
Who------201
They------187
Their------174
All------153
King------139

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  1. This exercise uses Volume 2 of Thomas Macaulay's History of England which can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg.
  2. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool to generate a word list sorted by frequency. 

  Word Count
The------3591
Of------2057
And------1360
To------1234
A------850
Was------848
In------758
Had------686
Been------265
Be------255
Not------246
At------240
On------213
From------212
Who------201
They------187
Their------174
All------153
King------139
  1. Examining the word list does not show an immediate pattern amongst the most common words in the text. The most frequent words were common function words such as 'The', 'A', etc. They don't appear to be particularly unique, so we decide to eliminate common function words.
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<		 1 Run the *[[http://portal.tapor.ca/TaporMain/portal/launchTool?toolName=List Words (Plain)&showDataBench=false][TAPoR List Words Tool]]* again, *applying a list of words to exclude* from the list. One useful stop list, the Glasgow stop words list, is available [[http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/idom/ir_resources/linguistic_utils/stop_words][here]]. 


  Word Count
King------139
Great------115
Parliament------92
England------86
House------83
Men------81
Time------75
Government------74
Charles------73
Power------68
Party------66
Public------59
Years------57
France------56
Long------56
English------55
Court------54
Commons------53
State------52
Church------51
New------46
Man------46
Country------46

The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


Let's see how these words are used within the context of the text.
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  1. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. One useful stop list, the Glasgow stop words list, is available here. 

  Word Count
King------139
Great------115
Parliament------92
England------86
House------83
Men------81
Time------75
Government------74
Charles------73
Power------68
Party------66
Public------59
Years------57
France------56
Long------56
English------55
Court------54
Commons------53
State------52
Church------51
New------46
Man------46
Country------46

The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


Let's see how these words are used within the context of the text.

  1. Using the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool will list places in the text that a particular word appears.
  2. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

    the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

    Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.


  3. How is power referred to in the text? Use the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

    Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.


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  2. Recipe 1 Identify Themes in a Text
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 This recipe and exercise is available as a PDF download.

Exercise Steps

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  1. This tutorial uses Volume 2 of Thomas Macaulay's History of England which can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg here.
1 Run the *[[http://portal.tapor.ca/TaporMain/portal/launchTool?toolName=List Words (Plain)&showDataBench=false][TAPoR List Words Tool]]* to generate a word list sorted by frequency. 


  Word Count
The------3591
Of------2057
And------1360
To------1234
A------850
Was------848
In------758
Had------686
Been------265
Be------255
Not------246
At------240
On------213
From------212
Who------201
They------187
Their------174
All------153
King------139

  1. Examining the word list does not show an immediate pattern amongst the most common words in the text. The most frequent words were common function words such as 'The', 'A', etc. They don't appear to be particularly unique, so we decide to eliminate common function words.
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  1. This exercise uses Volume 2 of Thomas Macaulay's History of England which can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg here.
1 Run the *[[http://portal.tapor.ca/portal/launchTool?toolName=List Words (Plain)&showDataBench=false][TAPoR List Words Tool]]* to generate a word list sorted by frequency. 


  Word Count
The------3591
Of------2057
And------1360
To------1234
A------850
Was------848
In------758
Had------686
Been------265
Be------255
Not------246
At------240
On------213
From------212
Who------201
They------187
Their------174
All------153
King------139

  1. Examining the word list does not show an immediate pattern amongst the most common words in the text. The most frequent words were common function words such as 'The', 'A', etc. They don't appear to be particularly unique, so we decide to eliminate common function words.

1 Run the *[[http://portal.tapor.ca/TaporMain/portal/launchTool?toolName=List Words (Plain)&showDataBench=false][TAPoR List Words Tool]]* again, *applying a list of words to exclude* from the list. One useful stop list, the Glasgow stop words list, is available [[http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/idom/ir_resources/linguistic_utils/stop_words][here]]. 


  Word Count
King------139
Great------115
Parliament------92
England------86
House------83
Men------81
Time------75
Government------74
Charles------73
Power------68
Party------66
Public------59
Years------57
France------56
Long------56
English------55
Court------54
Commons------53
State------52
Church------51
New------46
Man------46
Country------46

The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


Let's see how these words are used within the context of the text.
  1. Using the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool will list places in the text that a particular word appears.

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Exercise Steps

  1. This tutorial uses Volume 2 of Thomas Macaulay's History of England which can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg here.
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  1. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool to generate a word list sorted by frequency.

    Word Count
    The------3591
    Of------2057
    And------1360
    To------1234
    A------850
    Was------848
    In------758
    Had------686
    Been------265
    Be------255
    Not------246
    At------240
    On------213
    From------212
    Who------201
    They------187
    Their------174
    All------153
    King------139

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  Word Count
The------3591
Of------2057
And------1360
To------1234
A------850
Was------848
In------758
Had------686
Been------265
Be------255
Not------246
At------240
On------213
From------212
Who------201
They------187
Their------174
All------153
King------139
  1. Examining the word list does not show an immediate pattern amongst the most common words in the text. The most frequent words were common function words such as 'The', 'A', etc. They don't appear to be particularly unique, so we decide to eliminate common function words.
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  1. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. One useful stop list, the Glasgow stop words list, is available here.

    Word Count
    King------139
    Great------115
    Parliament------92
    England------86
    House------83
    Men------81
    Time------75
    Government------74
    Charles------73
    Power------68
    Party------66
    Public------59
    Years------57
    France------56
    Long------56
    English------55
    Court------54
    Commons------53
    State------52
    Church------51
    New------46
    Man------46
    Country------46

    The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


    Let's see how these words are used within the context of the text.
  2. Using the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool will list places in the text that a particular word appears.
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>		 1 Run the *[[http://portal.tapor.ca/TaporMain/portal/launchTool?toolName=List Words (Plain)&showDataBench=false][TAPoR List Words Tool]]* again, *applying a list of words to exclude* from the list. One useful stop list, the Glasgow stop words list, is available [[http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/idom/ir_resources/linguistic_utils/stop_words][here]]. 


  Word Count
King------139
Great------115
Parliament------92
England------86
House------83
Men------81
Time------75
Government------74
Charles------73
Power------68
Party------66
Public------59
Years------57
France------56
Long------56
English------55
Court------54
Commons------53
State------52
Church------51
New------46
Man------46
Country------46

The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


Let's see how these words are used within the context of the text.
  1. Using the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool will list places in the text that a particular word appears.

  1. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

    the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

    Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.


  2. How is power referred to in the text? Use the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

    Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.


  3. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

    Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.



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  1. Examining the word list does not show an immediate pattern amongst the most common words in the text. The most frequent words were common function words such as 'The', 'A', etc. They don't appear to be particularly unique, so we decide to eliminate common function words.
  2. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. One useful stop list, the Glasgow stop words list, is available here.

    Word Count
    King------139
    Great------115
    Parliament------92
    England------86
    House------83
    Men------81
    Time------75
    Government------74
    Charles------73
    Power------68
    Party------66
    Public------59
    Years------57
    France------56
    Long------56
    English------55
    Court------54
    Commons------53
    State------52
    Church------51
    New------46
    Man------46
    Country------46

    The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


    Let's see how these words are used within the context of the text.
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  1. Using the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool will list places in the text that a particular word appears.
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  1. Using the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool will list places in the text that a particular word appears.

  1. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

    the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

    Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.


  2. How is power referred to in the text? Use the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

    Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.


  3. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

    Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.



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  1. Recipe 1 Identify Themes in a Text
  2. Recipe 2 Explore Themes in a Text
  3. Help with Particular Tools
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Exercise Steps

  1. This tutorial uses Volume 2 of Thomas Macaulay's History of England which can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg here.
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  1. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool to generate a word list sorted by frequency.

    Word Count
    The------3591
    Of------2057
    And------1360
    To------1234
    A------850
    Was------848
    In------758
    Had------686
    Been------265
    Be------255
    Not------246
    At------240
    On------213
    From------212
    Who------201
    They------187
    Their------174
    All------153
    King------139

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  1. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool to generate a word list sorted by frequency.

    Word Count
    The------3591
    Of------2057
    And------1360
    To------1234
    A------850
    Was------848
    In------758
    Had------686
    Been------265
    Be------255
    Not------246
    At------240
    On------213
    From------212
    Who------201
    They------187
    Their------174
    All------153
    King------139
  1. Examining the word list does not show an immediate pattern amongst the most common words in the text. The most frequent words were common function words such as 'The', 'A', etc. They don't appear to be particularly unique, so we decide to eliminate common function words.
Changed:
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  1. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. One useful stop list, the Glasgow stop words list, is available here.

    Word Count
    King------139
    Great------115
    Parliament------92
    England------86
    House------83
    Men------81
    Time------75
    Government------74
    Charles------73
    Power------68
    Party------66
    Public------59
    Years------57
    France------56
    Long------56
    English------55
    Court------54
    Commons------53
    State------52
    Church------51
    New------46
    Man------46
    Country------46

    ALERT! The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


    Let's see how these words are used within the context of the text.
  2. Using the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool will list places in the text that a particular word appears.
  3. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

    ALERT! the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

    ALERT! Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.


  4. How is power referred to in the text? Use the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

    ALERT! Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.


  5. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

    Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.


    1. What is the author's attitude towards the monarchy? Use TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to see how often the words 'King' and 'Charles' occur together.

      ALERT! Note that the title the King is commonly used, but not King Charles or King James. The proper name Charles is used frequently, but collocation of King and Charles are rare.

      ALERT! Parliament is superior. King is ‘detested’, ‘disliked’, ‘impeached’ – moreover, never used terms ‘executed’, killed.

      ALERT! The word Court is paired with a variety of disparaging terms, ‘sycophants’, ‘concealed’, ‘quarreled with’, ‘…abused’, ‘extravagance of the …’, ‘the…excited the bitter indignation’, ‘vice and folly’, ‘disliked’, ‘faithlessness of the …’, ‘seditious’

      ALERT! The Commons are collocated with positive terms: ‘undoubted power’, ‘should be governed’, ‘elected’, ‘ancient and undoubted power’, ‘legally’.


>
>
  1. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. One useful stop list, the Glasgow stop words list, is available here.

    Word Count
    King------139
    Great------115
    Parliament------92
    England------86
    House------83
    Men------81
    Time------75
    Government------74
    Charles------73
    Power------68
    Party------66
    Public------59
    Years------57
    France------56
    Long------56
    English------55
    Court------54
    Commons------53
    State------52
    Church------51
    New------46
    Man------46
    Country------46

    The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


    Let's see how these words are used within the context of the text.
  2. Using the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool will list places in the text that a particular word appears.
  3. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

    the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

    Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.


  4. How is power referred to in the text? Use the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

    Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.


  5. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

    Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.


  6. What is the author's attitude towards the monarchy? Use TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to see how often the words 'King' and 'Charles' occur together.

    Note that the title the King is commonly used, but not King Charles or King James. The proper name Charles is used frequently, but collocation of King and Charles are rare.

    Parliament is superior. King is ‘detested’, ‘disliked’, ‘impeached’ – moreover, never used terms ‘executed’, killed.

    The word Court is paired with a variety of disparaging terms, ‘sycophants’, ‘concealed’, ‘quarreled with’, ‘…abused’, ‘extravagance of the …’, ‘the…excited the bitter indignation’, ‘vice and folly’, ‘disliked’, ‘faithlessness of the …’, ‘seditious’

    The Commons are collocated with positive terms: ‘undoubted power’, ‘should be governed’, ‘elected’, ‘ancient and undoubted power’, ‘legally’.
  1. Thus, using these simple tools easily identifies the themes of power, monarchy, the common man and time in Macaulay's History of England.
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Recipe 1 Exercise

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Exercise Steps

  1. This tutorial uses Volume 2 of Thomas Macaulay's History of England which can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg here.
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  1. Run the*TAPoR List Words Tool* to generate a word list sorted by frequency.

    Word Count
    The------3591
    Of------2057
    And------1360
    To------1234
    A------850
    Was------848
    In------758
    Had------686
    Been------265
    Be------255
    Not------246
    At------240
    On------213
    From------212
    Who------201
    They------187
    Their------174
    All------153
    King------139

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  1. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool to generate a word list sorted by frequency.

    Word Count
    The------3591
    Of------2057
    And------1360
    To------1234
    A------850
    Was------848
    In------758
    Had------686
    Been------265
    Be------255
    Not------246
    At------240
    On------213
    From------212
    Who------201
    They------187
    Their------174
    All------153
    King------139
  1. Examining the word list does not show an immediate pattern amongst the most common words in the text. The most frequent words were common function words such as 'The', 'A', etc. They don't appear to be particularly unique, so we decide to eliminate common function words.
Changed:
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  1. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. One useful stop list, the Glasgow stop words list, is available here.

    Word Count
    King------139
    Great------115
    Parliament------92
    England------86
    House------83
    Men------81
    Time------75
    Government------74
    Charles------73
    Power------68
    Party------66
    Public------59
    Years------57
    France------56
    Long------56
    English------55
    Court------54
    Commons------53
    State------52
    Church------51
    New------46
    Man------46
    Country------46

    The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


    Let's see how these words are used within the context of the text.
>
>
  1. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. One useful stop list, the Glasgow stop words list, is available here.

    Word Count
    King------139
    Great------115
    Parliament------92
    England------86
    House------83
    Men------81
    Time------75
    Government------74
    Charles------73
    Power------68
    Party------66
    Public------59
    Years------57
    France------56
    Long------56
    English------55
    Court------54
    Commons------53
    State------52
    Church------51
    New------46
    Man------46
    Country------46

    ALERT! The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


    Let's see how these words are used within the context of the text.

  1. Using the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool will list places in the text that a particular word appears.
Changed:
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  1. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

    the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

    Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.


  2. How is power referred to in the text? Use the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

    Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.


  3. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

    Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.


  4. What is the author's attitude towards the monarchy? Use TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to see how often the words 'King' and 'Charles' occur together.

    Note that the title the King is commonly used, but not King Charles or King James. The proper name Charles is used frequently, but collocation of King and Charles are rare.

    Parliament is superior. King is ‘detested’, ‘disliked’, ‘impeached’ – moreover, never used terms ‘executed’, killed.

    The word Court is paired with a variety of disparaging terms, ‘sycophants’, ‘concealed’, ‘quarreled with’, ‘…abused’, ‘extravagance of the …’, ‘the…excited the bitter indignation’, ‘vice and folly’, ‘disliked’, ‘faithlessness of the …’, ‘seditious’

    The Commons are collocated with positive terms: ‘undoubted power’, ‘should be governed’, ‘elected’, ‘ancient and undoubted power’, ‘legally’.


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  1. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

    ALERT! the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

    ALERT! Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.


  2. How is power referred to in the text? Use the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

    ALERT! Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.


  3. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

    Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.


    1. What is the author's attitude towards the monarchy? Use TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to see how often the words 'King' and 'Charles' occur together.

      ALERT! Note that the title the King is commonly used, but not King Charles or King James. The proper name Charles is used frequently, but collocation of King and Charles are rare.

      ALERT! Parliament is superior. King is ‘detested’, ‘disliked’, ‘impeached’ – moreover, never used terms ‘executed’, killed.

      ALERT! The word Court is paired with a variety of disparaging terms, ‘sycophants’, ‘concealed’, ‘quarreled with’, ‘…abused’, ‘extravagance of the …’, ‘the…excited the bitter indignation’, ‘vice and folly’, ‘disliked’, ‘faithlessness of the …’, ‘seditious’

      ALERT! The Commons are collocated with positive terms: ‘undoubted power’, ‘should be governed’, ‘elected’, ‘ancient and undoubted power’, ‘legally’.
  1. Thus, using these simple tools easily identifies the themes of power, monarchy, the common man and time in Macaulay's History of England.
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Exercise Steps

  1. This tutorial uses Volume 2 of Thomas Macaulay's History of England which can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg here.
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  1. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool to generate a word list sorted by frequency.

    Word Count
    The------3591
    Of------2057
    And------1360
    To------1234
    A------850
    Was------848
    In------758
    Had------686
    Been------265
    Be------255
    Not------246
    At------240
    On------213
    From------212
    Who------201
    They------187
    Their------174
    All------153
    King------139

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  1. Run the*TAPoR List Words Tool* to generate a word list sorted by frequency.

    Word Count
    The------3591
    Of------2057
    And------1360
    To------1234
    A------850
    Was------848
    In------758
    Had------686
    Been------265
    Be------255
    Not------246
    At------240
    On------213
    From------212
    Who------201
    They------187
    Their------174
    All------153
    King------139
  1. Examining the word list does not show an immediate pattern amongst the most common words in the text. The most frequent words were common function words such as 'The', 'A', etc. They don't appear to be particularly unique, so we decide to eliminate common function words.
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  1. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. One useful stop list, the Glasgow stop words list, is available here.

    Word Count
    King------139
    Great------115
    Parliament------92
    England------86
    House------83
    Men------81
    Time------75
    Government------74
    Charles------73
    Power------68
    Party------66
    Public------59
    Years------57
    France------56
    Long------56
    English------55
    Court------54
    Commons------53
    State------52
    Church------51
    New------46
    Man------46
    Country------46

    ALERT! The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


    Let's see how these words are used within the context of the text.
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    Word Count
    King------139
    Great------115
    Parliament------92
    England------86
    House------83
    Men------81
    Time------75
    Government------74
    Charles------73
    Power------68
    Party------66
    Public------59
    Years------57
    France------56
    Long------56
    English------55
    Court------54
    Commons------53
    State------52
    Church------51
    New------46
    Man------46
    Country------46

    The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


    Let's see how these words are used within the context of the text.

  1. Using the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool will list places in the text that a particular word appears.
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  1. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

    ALERT! the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

    ALERT! Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.


  2. How is power referred to in the text? Use the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

    ALERT! Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.


  3. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

    Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.


    1. What is the author's attitude towards the monarchy? Use TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to see how often the words 'King' and 'Charles' occur together.

      ALERT! Note that the title the King is commonly used, but not King Charles or King James. The proper name Charles is used frequently, but collocation of King and Charles are rare.

      ALERT! Parliament is superior. King is ‘detested’, ‘disliked’, ‘impeached’ – moreover, never used terms ‘executed’, killed.

      ALERT! The word Court is paired with a variety of disparaging terms, ‘sycophants’, ‘concealed’, ‘quarreled with’, ‘…abused’, ‘extravagance of the …’, ‘the…excited the bitter indignation’, ‘vice and folly’, ‘disliked’, ‘faithlessness of the …’, ‘seditious’

      ALERT! The Commons are collocated with positive terms: ‘undoubted power’, ‘should be governed’, ‘elected’, ‘ancient and undoubted power’, ‘legally’.


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  1. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

    the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

    Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.


  2. How is power referred to in the text? Use the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

    Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.


  3. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

    Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.


  4. What is the author's attitude towards the monarchy? Use TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to see how often the words 'King' and 'Charles' occur together.

    Note that the title the King is commonly used, but not King Charles or King James. The proper name Charles is used frequently, but collocation of King and Charles are rare.

    Parliament is superior. King is ‘detested’, ‘disliked’, ‘impeached’ – moreover, never used terms ‘executed’, killed.

    The word Court is paired with a variety of disparaging terms, ‘sycophants’, ‘concealed’, ‘quarreled with’, ‘…abused’, ‘extravagance of the …’, ‘the…excited the bitter indignation’, ‘vice and folly’, ‘disliked’, ‘faithlessness of the …’, ‘seditious’

    The Commons are collocated with positive terms: ‘undoubted power’, ‘should be governed’, ‘elected’, ‘ancient and undoubted power’, ‘legally’.
  1. Thus, using these simple tools easily identifies the themes of power, monarchy, the common man and time in Macaulay's History of England.

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  1. How is power referred to in the text? Use the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

    ALERT! Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.


  2. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

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  1. What is the author's attitude towards the monarchy? Use TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to see how often the words 'King' and 'Charles' occur together.

    ALERT! Note that the title the King is commonly used, but not King Charles or King James. The proper name Charles is used frequently, but collocation of King and Charles are rare.

    ALERT! Parliament is superior. King is ‘detested’, ‘disliked’, ‘impeached’ – moreover, never used terms ‘executed’, killed.

    ALERT! The word Court is paired with a variety of disparaging terms, ‘sycophants’, ‘concealed’, ‘quarreled with’, ‘…abused’, ‘extravagance of the …’, ‘the…excited the bitter indignation’, ‘vice and folly’, ‘disliked’, ‘faithlessness of the …’, ‘seditious’

    ALERT! The Commons are collocated with positive terms: ‘undoubted power’, ‘should be governed’, ‘elected’, ‘ancient and undoubted power’, ‘legally’.


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Recipe 1 Exercise

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  1. Using the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool will list places in the text that a particular word appears.
  2. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

    ALERT! the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

    ALERT! Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.


  3. How is power referred to in the text? Use the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

    ALERT! Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.


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  1. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

    ALERT! Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.


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  1. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

    Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.



  1. What is the author's attitude towards the monarchy? Use TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to see how often the words 'King' and 'Charles' occur together.

    ALERT! Note that the title the King is commonly used, but not King Charles or King James. The proper name Charles is used frequently, but collocation of King and Charles are rare.

    ALERT! Parliament is superior. King is ‘detested’, ‘disliked’, ‘impeached’ – moreover, never used terms ‘executed’, killed.

    ALERT! The word Court is paired with a variety of disparaging terms, ‘sycophants’, ‘concealed’, ‘quarreled with’, ‘…abused’, ‘extravagance of the …’, ‘the…excited the bitter indignation’, ‘vice and folly’, ‘disliked’, ‘faithlessness of the …’, ‘seditious’

    ALERT! The Commons are collocated with positive terms: ‘undoubted power’, ‘should be governed’, ‘elected’, ‘ancient and undoubted power’, ‘legally’.


  2. Thus, using these simple tools easily identifies the themes of power, monarchy, the common man and time in Macaulay's History of England.
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Recipe 1 Exercise

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 Word Count
The------3591
Of------2057
And------1360
To------1234
A------850
Was------848
In------758
Had------686
Been------265
Be------255
Not------246
At------240
On------213
From------212
Who------201
They------187
Their------174
All------153
King------139

  1. Examining the word list does not show an immediate pattern amongst the most common words in the text. The most frequent words were common function words such as 'The', 'A', etc. They don't appear to be particularly unique, so we decide to eliminate common function words.
  2. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. One useful stop list, the Glasgow stop words list, is available here.

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    King------139
    Great------115
    Parliament------92
    England------86
    House------83
    Men------81
    Time------75
    Government------74
    Charles------73
    Power------68
    Party------66
    Public------59
    Years------57
    France------56
    Long------56
    English------55
    Court------54
    Commons------53
    State------52
    Church------51
    New------46
    Man------46
    Country------46

    ALERT! The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


    Let's see how these words are used within the context of the text.
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    King------139
    Great------115
    Parliament------92
    England------86
    House------83
    Men------81
    Time------75
    Government------74
    Charles------73
    Power------68
    Party------66
    Public------59
    Years------57
    France------56
    Long------56
    English------55
    Court------54
    Commons------53
    State------52
    Church------51
    New------46
    Man------46
    Country------46

    ALERT! The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


    Let's see how these words are used within the context of the text.

    1. Using the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool will list places in the text that a particular word appears.
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    1. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

      ALERT! the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

      ALERT! Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.


    2. How is power referred to in the text? Use the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

      ALERT! Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.


    3. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

      ALERT! Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.


    4. What is the author's attitude towards the monarchy? Use TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to see how often the words 'King' and 'Charles' occur together.

      ALERT! Note that the title the King is commonly used, but not ‘King Charles’ or 'King James'. The proper name Charles is used frequently, but collocation of King and Charles are rare.

      ALERT! Parliament_ is superior. King is ‘detested’, ‘disliked’, ‘impeached’ – moreover, never used terms ‘executed’, killed.

      ALERT! The word Court is paired with a variety of disparaging terms, ‘sycophants’, ‘concealed’, ‘quarreled with’, ‘…abused’, ‘extravagance of the …’, ‘the…excited the bitter indignation’, ‘vice and folly’, ‘disliked’, ‘faithlessness of the …’, ‘seditious’

      ALERT! The Commons are collocated with positive terms: ‘undoubted power’, ‘should be governed’, ‘elected’, ‘ancient and undoubted power’, ‘legally’.


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    1. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

      ALERT! the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

      ALERT! Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.


    2. How is power referred to in the text? Use the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

      ALERT! Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.


    3. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

      ALERT! Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.


    4. What is the author's attitude towards the monarchy? Use TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to see how often the words 'King' and 'Charles' occur together.

      ALERT! Note that the title the King is commonly used, but not King Charles or King James. The proper name Charles is used frequently, but collocation of King and Charles are rare.

      ALERT! Parliament is superior. King is ‘detested’, ‘disliked’, ‘impeached’ – moreover, never used terms ‘executed’, killed.

      ALERT! The word Court is paired with a variety of disparaging terms, ‘sycophants’, ‘concealed’, ‘quarreled with’, ‘…abused’, ‘extravagance of the …’, ‘the…excited the bitter indignation’, ‘vice and folly’, ‘disliked’, ‘faithlessness of the …’, ‘seditious’

      ALERT! The Commons are collocated with positive terms: ‘undoubted power’, ‘should be governed’, ‘elected’, ‘ancient and undoubted power’, ‘legally’.
    1. Thus, using these simple tools easily identifies the themes of power, monarchy, the common man and time in Macaulay's History of England.

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    The------3591
    Of------2057
    And------1360
    To------1234
    A------850
    Was------848
    In------758
    Had------686
    Been------265
    Be------255
    Not------246
    At------240
    On------213
    From------212
    Who------201
    They------187
    Their------174
    All------153
    King------139

    1. Examining the word list does not show an immediate pattern amongst the most common words in the text. The most frequent words were common function words such as 'The', 'A', etc. They don't appear to be particularly unique, so we decide to eliminate common function words.
    2. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. One useful stop list, the Glasgow stop words list, is available here.

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      King------139
      Great------115
      Parliament------92
      England------86
      House------83
      Men------81
      Time------75
      Government------74
      Charles------73
      Power------68
      Party------66
      Public------59
      Years------57
      France------56
      Long------56
      English------55
      Court------54
      Commons------53
      State------52
      Church------51
      New------46
      Man------46
      Country------46

      ALERT! The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


      Let's see how these words are used within the context of the text.
      >
      >
      Word Count
      King------139
      Great------115
      Parliament------92
      England------86
      House------83
      Men------81
      Time------75
      Government------74
      Charles------73
      Power------68
      Party------66
      Public------59
      Years------57
      France------56
      Long------56
      English------55
      Court------54
      Commons------53
      State------52
      Church------51
      New------46
      Man------46
      Country------46

      ALERT! The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


      Let's see how these words are used within the context of the text.

      1. Using the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool will list places in the text that a particular word appears.
      Changed:
      <
      <
      1. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

        ALERT! the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

        ALERT! Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.


      2. How is power referred to in the text? Use the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

        ALERT! Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.


      3. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

        ALERT! Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.


      4. What is the author's attitude towards the monarchy? Use TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to see how often the words 'King' and 'Charles' occur together.

        ALERT! Note that the title the King is commonly used, but not ‘King Charles’ or 'King James'. The proper name Charles is used frequently, but collocation of King and Charles are rare.

        ALERT! Parliament_ is superior. King is ‘detested’, ‘disliked’, ‘impeached’ – moreover, never used terms ‘executed’, killed.

        ALERT! The word Court is paired with a variety of disparaging terms, ‘sycophants’, ‘concealed’, ‘quarreled with’, ‘…abused’, ‘extravagance of the …’, ‘the…excited the bitter indignation’, ‘vice and folly’, ‘disliked’, ‘faithlessness of the …’, ‘seditious’

        ALERT! The Commons are collocated with positive terms: ‘undoubted power’, ‘should be governed’, ‘elected’, ‘ancient and undoubted power’, ‘legally’.


      >
      >
      1. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

        ALERT! the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

        ALERT! Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.


      2. How is power referred to in the text? Use the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

        ALERT! Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.


      3. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

        ALERT! Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.


      4. What is the author's attitude towards the monarchy? Use TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to see how often the words 'King' and 'Charles' occur together.

        ALERT! Note that the title the King is commonly used, but not ‘King Charles’ or 'King James'. The proper name Charles is used frequently, but collocation of King and Charles are rare.

        ALERT! Parliament_ is superior. King is ‘detested’, ‘disliked’, ‘impeached’ – moreover, never used terms ‘executed’, killed.

        ALERT! The word Court is paired with a variety of disparaging terms, ‘sycophants’, ‘concealed’, ‘quarreled with’, ‘…abused’, ‘extravagance of the …’, ‘the…excited the bitter indignation’, ‘vice and folly’, ‘disliked’, ‘faithlessness of the …’, ‘seditious’

        ALERT! The Commons are collocated with positive terms: ‘undoubted power’, ‘should be governed’, ‘elected’, ‘ancient and undoubted power’, ‘legally’.



      1. Thus, using these simple tools easily identifies the themes of power, monarchy, the common man and time in Macaulay's History of England.
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      		 Word Count
      The------3591
      Of------2057
      And------1360
      To------1234
      A------850
      Was------848
      In------758
      Had------686
      Been------265
      Be------255
      Not------246
      At------240
      On------213
      From------212
      Who------201
      They------187
      Their------174
      All------153
      King------139

      1. Examining the word list does not show an immediate pattern amongst the most common words in the text. The most frequent words were common function words such as 'The', 'A', etc. They don't appear to be particularly unique, so we decide to eliminate common function words.
      2. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. One useful stop list, the Glasgow stop words list, is available here.

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        Word Count
        King------139
        Great------115
        Parliament------92
        England------86
        House------83
        Men------81
        Time------75
        Government------74
        Charles------73
        Power------68
        Party------66
        Public------59
        Years------57
        France------56
        Long------56
        English------55
        Court------54
        Commons------53
        State------52
        Church------51
        New------46
        Man------46
        Country------46

        ALERT! The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


        Let's see how these words are used within the context of the text.
        >
        >
        Word Count
        King------139
        Great------115
        Parliament------92
        England------86
        House------83
        Men------81
        Time------75
        Government------74
        Charles------73
        Power------68
        Party------66
        Public------59
        Years------57
        France------56
        Long------56
        English------55
        Court------54
        Commons------53
        State------52
        Church------51
        New------46
        Man------46
        Country------46

        ALERT! The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


        Let's see how these words are used within the context of the text.

        1. Using the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool will list places in the text that a particular word appears.
        Changed:
        <
        <
        1. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

          ALERT! the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

          ALERT! Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.


        2. How is power referred to in the text? Use the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

          ALERT! Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.


        3. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

          ALERT! Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.


        4. What is the author's attitude towards the monarchy? Use TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to see how often the words 'King' and 'Charles' occur together.

          ALERT! Note that the title the King is commonly used, but not ‘King Charles’ or 'King James'. The proper name Charles is used frequently, but collocation of King and Charles are rare.

          ALERT! Parliament_ is superior. King is ‘detested’, ‘disliked’, ‘impeached’ – moreover, never used terms ‘executed’, killed.

          ALERT! The word Court is paired with a variety of disparaging terms, ‘sycophants’, ‘concealed’, ‘quarreled with’, ‘…abused’, ‘extravagance of the …’, ‘the…excited the bitter indignation’, ‘vice and folly’, ‘disliked’, ‘faithlessness of the …’, ‘seditious’

          ALERT! The Commons are collocated with positive terms: ‘undoubted power’, ‘should be governed’, ‘elected’, ‘ancient and undoubted power’, ‘legally’.


        >
        >
        1. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

          ALERT! the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

          ALERT! Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.


        2. How is power referred to in the text? Use the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

          ALERT! Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.


        3. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

          ALERT! Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.


        4. What is the author's attitude towards the monarchy? Use TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to see how often the words 'King' and 'Charles' occur together.

          ALERT! Note that the title the King is commonly used, but not ‘King Charles’ or 'King James'. The proper name Charles is used frequently, but collocation of King and Charles are rare.

          ALERT! Parliament_ is superior. King is ‘detested’, ‘disliked’, ‘impeached’ – moreover, never used terms ‘executed’, killed.

          ALERT! The word Court is paired with a variety of disparaging terms, ‘sycophants’, ‘concealed’, ‘quarreled with’, ‘…abused’, ‘extravagance of the …’, ‘the…excited the bitter indignation’, ‘vice and folly’, ‘disliked’, ‘faithlessness of the …’, ‘seditious’

          ALERT! The Commons are collocated with positive terms: ‘undoubted power’, ‘should be governed’, ‘elected’, ‘ancient and undoubted power’, ‘legally’.



        1. Thus, using these simple tools easily identifies the themes of power, monarchy, the common man and time in Macaulay's History of England.

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        Exercise Steps

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        1. This tutorial uses Volume 2 of Thomas Macaulay's History of England which can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg here.
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        1. Run the List Words Tool to generate a word list sorted by frequency.

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        1. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool to generate a word list sorted by frequency.


        Word Count
        The------3591
        Of------2057
        And------1360
        To------1234
        A------850
        Was------848
        In------758
        Had------686
        Been------265
        Be------255
        Not------246
        At------240
        On------213
        From------212
        Who------201
        They------187
        Their------174
        All------153
        King------139

        1. Examining the word list does not show an immediate pattern amongst the most common words in the text. The most frequent words were common function words such as 'The', 'A', etc. They don't appear to be particularly unique, so we decide to eliminate common function words.
        Changed:
        <
        <
        1. Run the List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. One useful stop list, the Glasgow stop words list, is available here.

        >
        >
        1. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. One useful stop list, the Glasgow stop words list, is available here.


        Word Count
        King------139
        Great------115
        Parliament------92
        England------86
        House------83
        Men------81
        Time------75
        Government------74
        Charles------73
        Power------68
        Party------66
        Public------59
        Years------57
        France------56
        Long------56
        English------55
        Court------54
        Commons------53
        State------52
        Church------51
        New------46
        Man------46
        Country------46

        ALERT! The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


        Let's see how these words are used within the context of the text.
        Changed:
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        1. Using the Find Words - Concordance Tool will list places in the text that a particular word appears.
        >
        >
        1. Using the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool will list places in the text that a particular word appears.

        1. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

          ALERT! the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

          ALERT! Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.


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        1. How is power referred to in the text? Use the Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

          ALERT! Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.


        2. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

          ALERT! Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.


        3. What is the author's attitude towards the monarchy? Use Find Collocates Tool to see how often the words 'King' and 'Charles' occur together.

          ALERT! Note that the title the King is commonly used, but not ‘King Charles’ or 'King James'. The proper name Charles is used frequently, but collocation of King and Charles are rare.

          ALERT! Parliament_ is superior. King is ‘detested’, ‘disliked’, ‘impeached’ – moreover, never used terms ‘executed’, killed.

          ALERT! The word Court is paired with a variety of disparaging terms, ‘sycophants’, ‘concealed’, ‘quarreled with’, ‘…abused’, ‘extravagance of the …’, ‘the…excited the bitter indignation’, ‘vice and folly’, ‘disliked’, ‘faithlessness of the …’, ‘seditious’

          ALERT! The Commons are collocated with positive terms: ‘undoubted power’, ‘should be governed’, ‘elected’, ‘ancient and undoubted power’, ‘legally’.


        >
        >
        1. How is power referred to in the text? Use the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

          ALERT! Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.


        2. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

          ALERT! Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.


        3. What is the author's attitude towards the monarchy? Use TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to see how often the words 'King' and 'Charles' occur together.

          ALERT! Note that the title the King is commonly used, but not ‘King Charles’ or 'King James'. The proper name Charles is used frequently, but collocation of King and Charles are rare.

          ALERT! Parliament_ is superior. King is ‘detested’, ‘disliked’, ‘impeached’ – moreover, never used terms ‘executed’, killed.

          ALERT! The word Court is paired with a variety of disparaging terms, ‘sycophants’, ‘concealed’, ‘quarreled with’, ‘…abused’, ‘extravagance of the …’, ‘the…excited the bitter indignation’, ‘vice and folly’, ‘disliked’, ‘faithlessness of the …’, ‘seditious’

          ALERT! The Commons are collocated with positive terms: ‘undoubted power’, ‘should be governed’, ‘elected’, ‘ancient and undoubted power’, ‘legally’.



        1. Thus, using these simple tools easily identifies the themes of power, monarchy, the common man and time in Macaulay's History of England.

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        >        		 This exercise uses Recipe 1 to identify simple themes within a sample text. It applies a recipe to real textual example which is freely available on the internet so you can do the steps yourself and see the results.

        Exercise Steps

        1. This tutorial uses Volume 2 of Thomas Macaulay's History of England which can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg here.
        Changed:
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        1. Run the List Words Tool to generate a word list sorted by frequency.
        >
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        1. Run the List Words Tool to generate a word list sorted by frequency.

          Word Count
          The------3591
          Of------2057
          And------1360
          To------1234
          A------850
          Was------848
          In------758
          Had------686
          Been------265
          Be------255
          Not------246
          At------240
          On------213
          From------212
          Who------201
          They------187
          Their------174
          All------153
          King------139
        1. Examining the word list does not show an immediate pattern amongst the most common words in the text. The most frequent words were common function words such as 'The', 'A', etc. They don't appear to be particularly unique, so we decide to eliminate common function words.
        Changed:
        <
        <
        1. Run the List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. The Glasgow stop words list is available here.

          ALERT! The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


          Let's see how these words are used within the context of the text.
        >
        >
        1. Run the List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. One useful stop list, the Glasgow stop words list, is available here.

          Word Count
          King------139
          Great------115
          Parliament------92
          England------86
          House------83
          Men------81
          Time------75
          Government------74
          Charles------73
          Power------68
          Party------66
          Public------59
          Years------57
          France------56
          Long------56
          English------55
          Court------54
          Commons------53
          State------52
          Church------51
          New------46
          Man------46
          Country------46

          ALERT! The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


          Let's see how these words are used within the context of the text.

        1. Using the Find Words - Concordance Tool will list places in the text that a particular word appears.
        2. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

          ALERT! the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

          ALERT! Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.


        3. How is power referred to in the text? Use the Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

          ALERT! Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.



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        1. This tutorial uses Volume 2 of Thomas Macaulay's History of England which can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg here.
        2. Run the List Words Tool to generate a word list sorted by frequency.
        Changed:
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        <
        1. Examining the word list does not show an immediate pattern amongst the most common words in the text. The most frequent words were common constructor words such as 'The', 'A', etc. They don't appear to be particularly unique, so we decide to eliminate common constructors.
        >
        >
        1. Examining the word list does not show an immediate pattern amongst the most common words in the text. The most frequent words were common function words such as 'The', 'A', etc. They don't appear to be particularly unique, so we decide to eliminate common function words.
        1. Run the List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. The Glasgow stop words list is available here.

          ALERT! The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


          Let's see how these words are used within the context of the text.
        2. Using the Find Words - Concordance Tool will list places in the text that a particular word appears.
        3. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

          ALERT! the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

          ALERT! Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.


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        1. How is power referred to in the text? Use the Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.
          • Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.
        2. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.
          • Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.
        3. What is the author's attitude towards the monarchy? Use Find Collocates Tool to see how often the words 'King' and 'Charles' occur together.
          • Note that the title the King is commonly used, but not ‘King Charles’ or 'King James'. The proper name Charles is used frequently, but collocation of King and Charles are rare.
          • Parliament is superior. King is ‘detested’, ‘disliked’, ‘impeached’ – moreover, never used terms ‘executed’, killed.
          • The word Court is paired with a variety of disparaging terms, ‘sycophants’, ‘concealed’, ‘quarreled with’, ‘…abused’, ‘extravagance of the …’, ‘the…excited the bitter indignation’, ‘vice and folly’, ‘disliked’, ‘faithlessness of the …’, ‘seditious’
          • The Commons are collocated with positive terms: ‘undoubted power’, ‘should be governed’, ‘elected’, ‘ancient and undoubted power’, ‘legally’.
        4. Thus, three simple tools has demonstrated the themes of power,
        >
        >
        1. How is power referred to in the text? Use the Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.

          ALERT! Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.


        2. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

          ALERT! Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.


        3. What is the author's attitude towards the monarchy? Use Find Collocates Tool to see how often the words 'King' and 'Charles' occur together.

          ALERT! Note that the title the King is commonly used, but not ‘King Charles’ or 'King James'. The proper name Charles is used frequently, but collocation of King and Charles are rare.

          ALERT! Parliament_ is superior. King is ‘detested’, ‘disliked’, ‘impeached’ – moreover, never used terms ‘executed’, killed.

          ALERT! The word Court is paired with a variety of disparaging terms, ‘sycophants’, ‘concealed’, ‘quarreled with’, ‘…abused’, ‘extravagance of the …’, ‘the…excited the bitter indignation’, ‘vice and folly’, ‘disliked’, ‘faithlessness of the …’, ‘seditious’

          ALERT! The Commons are collocated with positive terms: ‘undoubted power’, ‘should be governed’, ‘elected’, ‘ancient and undoubted power’, ‘legally’.


        4. Thus, using these simple tools easily identifies the themes of power, monarchy, the common man and time in Macaulay's History of England.

        Next Steps/Further Information


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        1. This tutorial uses Volume 2 of Thomas Macaulay's History of England which can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg here.
        2. Run the List Words Tool to generate a word list sorted by frequency.
        3. Examining the word list does not show an immediate pattern amongst the most common words in the text. The most frequent words were common constructor words such as 'The', 'A', etc. They don't appear to be particularly unique, so we decide to eliminate common constructors.
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        1. Run the List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. The Glasgow stop words list is available here.

          ALERT! The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


          Let's see how these words are used within the context of the text.
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        1. Run the List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. The Glasgow stop words list is available here.

          ALERT! The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


          Let's see how these words are used within the context of the text.

        1. Using the Find Words - Concordance Tool will list places in the text that a particular word appears.
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        1. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

          ALERT! the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

          ALERT! Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.


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        1. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

          ALERT! the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

          ALERT! Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.



        1. How is power referred to in the text? Use the Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.
          • Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.
        2. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.

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        1. Examining the word list does not show an immediate pattern amongst the most common words in the text. The most frequent words were common constructor words such as 'The', 'A', etc. They don't appear to be particularly unique, so we decide to eliminate common constructors.
        2. Run the List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. The Glasgow stop words list is available here.

          ALERT! The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


          Let's see how these words are used within the context of the text.
        3. Using the Find Words - Concordance Tool will list places in the text that a particular word appears.
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        1. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

          ALERT! the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

          ALERT! Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.


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        1. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

          ALERT! the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

          ALERT! Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.



        1. How is power referred to in the text? Use the Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.
          • Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.
        2. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.
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        1. This tutorial uses Volume 2 of Thomas Macaulay's History of England which can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg here.
        2. Run the List Words Tool to generate a word list sorted by frequency.
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        1. Examining the word list does not show an immediate pattern amongst the most common words in the text. The most frequent words were common constructor words such as 'The', 'A', etc. They don't appear to be particularly unique, so we decide to eliminate common constructors.
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        1. Run the List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. The Glasgow stop words list is available here.
        2. The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out. Let's see how these words are used within the context of the text.
        3. Using the *Find Words - Concordance Tool* will list places in the text that a particular word appears.
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        4. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:
          • the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.
          • Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.
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        1. Run the List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. The Glasgow stop words list is available here.

          ALERT! The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.


          Let's see how these words are used within the context of the text.
        2. Using the Find Words - Concordance Tool will list places in the text that a particular word appears.
        3. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:

          ALERT! the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

          ALERT! Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.



        1. How is power referred to in the text? Use the Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.
          • Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.
        2. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.
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        Exercise Steps

        1. This tutorial uses Volume 2 of Thomas Macaulay's History of England which can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg here.
        2. Run the List Words Tool to generate a word list sorted by frequency.
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        3. Examining the word list does not show an immediate pattern amongst the most common words in the text. The most frequent words were common constructor words such as 'The', 'A', etc. They don't appear to be particularly unique, so we decide to eliminate common constructors.
          list.gif
        4. Run the List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. The Glasgow stop words list is available here.
        5. The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out. Let's see how these words are used within the context of the text.
        6. Using the *Find Words - Concordance Tool* will list places in the text that a particular word appears.
          frequency.gif.gif
        7. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:
          • the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.
          • Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.
        8. How is power referred to in the text? Use the Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.
          • Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.
        9. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.
          • Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.
        10. What is the author's attitude towards the monarchy? Use Find Collocates Tool to see how often the words 'King' and 'Charles' occur together.
          • Note that the title the King is commonly used, but not ‘King Charles’ or 'King James'. The proper name Charles is used frequently, but collocation of King and Charles are rare.
          • Parliament is superior. King is ‘detested’, ‘disliked’, ‘impeached’ – moreover, never used terms ‘executed’, killed.
          • The word Court is paired with a variety of disparaging terms, ‘sycophants’, ‘concealed’, ‘quarreled with’, ‘…abused’, ‘extravagance of the …’, ‘the…excited the bitter indignation’, ‘vice and folly’, ‘disliked’, ‘faithlessness of the …’, ‘seditious’
          • The Commons are collocated with positive terms: ‘undoubted power’, ‘should be governed’, ‘elected’, ‘ancient and undoubted power’, ‘legally’.
        11. Thus, three simple tools has demonstrated the themes of power,

        Next Steps/Further Information

        1. List of All Recipes
        2. Recipe 1 Identify Themes in a Text
        3. Recipe 2 Explore Themes in a Text
        4. Help with Particular Tools
        5. Background on Text Analysis

        -- ShawnDay - 30 Jan 2006

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