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March 25, 2014 at 10:05 am #295Christine O’NeillParticipant
Here are my tools:
1.Write Or Die – http://writeordie.com/
2.Mozilla Thunderbird – http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird
3.Typeracer – http://play.typeracer.com/1. Write or Die is a fabulous motivator that I have been using for years. This website gives you a text box that senses when you have stopped writing. Depending on the settings you have specified, at the end of the “grace period” (five seconds or thirty seconds, it’s up to you), the computer will emit an extremely obnoxious noise, like a crying baby or that Hanson Brothers song. You could also do the most extreme setting, where it actually deletes what you have written. Makes essay writing go a helluva lot faster!
2. Most of you probably already know how this works, but I’m still in awe of it. Mozilla Thunderbird is one of several available platforms that act as a big mailroom for all your email addresses. Being involved with school, plus several organizations, plus having my own personal email address, it’s a huge hassle to check all of them. Now I can just look through the folders within one window to see if I have new mail. I explained that poorly, but you should check out the site. It’s totally free.
3. If you’re like me and are often looking for creative ways to procrastinate, why not try Typeracer? These races, in which you can compete against other users all over the world, are designed to help you improve your typing speed. I average 80WPM and will happily crush anyone who wants to challenge me!- This reply was modified 10 years, 1 month ago by Christine O'Neill.
February 26, 2014 at 3:56 pm #259Christine O’NeillParticipantOur group has been working with Kirk Ann to plan what we’ll be analyzing in Walden. Some of the elements we’d like to look at: polarity (positivity vs negativity in the text), subjective vs. objective, co-location (two words that go together that wouldn’t statistically), stylometry (using Google’s NGram), word frequencies, grammatical trees, and readability (text density). We’ve also determined that we’d like to compare criticism on Walden to the actual text, preferably criticism from Harding – although we haven’t been able to find any online, so we may need some help. We have a document with some of the other criticism we’ve found.
Today, we discussed the possibility of doing a GREAT Day poster to demonstrate our research.
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By the by, we’re the data analysts!
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