Thinking Exercise 2

In these exercises you will answer some questions about concordancers and post written responses on the discussion page.

1. I mentioned that a concordancer can be used on any collection of text, even a single short story, for example. What are some things you might be able to learn about a single piece of writing using a concordancer?
2. How is a page of google search results like concordancer output? How is it not?
3. Without performing a search answer the following: What could you learn about the word "dig" from a page of concordancer output? Would it matter which corpus you were using? How?

For each answer, create or respond to an entry on this page's discussion page.

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