Words used in your text
Here is a picture of the words used most often in your document. Words used more often are bigger, and ones used less often are smaller. This picture, called a "word cloud", is helpful to get a sense of the most used words in a document.
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Top Words
Word | Frequency |
---|---|
writing | 124 |
baldwin | 52 |
essay | 49 |
would | 39 |
project | 38 |
learned | 36 |
write | 34 |
ideas | 31 |
journals | 29 |
paper | 28 |
school | 26 |
time | 26 |
college | 26 |
many | 24 |
high | 23 |
understand | 22 |
think | 22 |
make | 21 |
different | 21 |
really | 21 |
Bigrams
bigram | Frequency |
---|---|
i learned | 26 |
i was | 25 |
of the | 24 |
i had | 24 |
writing project | 24 |
that i | 24 |
high school | 23 |
i would | 22 |
to be | 19 |
to write | 19 |
my essay | 18 |
a lot | 18 |
what i | 18 |
i have | 17 |
to the | 16 |
college writing | 16 |
project i | 16 |
me to | 15 |
this writing | 15 |
in the | 15 |
Trigrams
trigram | Frequency |
---|---|
this writing project | 15 |
writing project i | 11 |
a lot of | 10 |
in high school | 9 |
college writing is | 8 |
i think i | 8 |
high school writing | 7 |
and college writing | 7 |
i was able | 7 |
was able to | 7 |
i had a | 7 |
i learned that | 6 |
i had to | 6 |
that i have | 6 |
moving forward i | 6 |
for me to | 6 |
and composing this | 6 |
composing this writing | 6 |
my own words | 5 |
writing the essay | 5 |
What do I do next?
Examining text data in this quantitative way can help you find stories to tell in your data. The fact that "writing" is a popular word is good to know, but combine that with the 4 uses in the top 40 bigrams, and the 10 uses in the top 40 trigrams, to understand the context of how it is used. With that richer understanding of the context, you can sketch out a picture of why "writing" is so important in your text.
So grab some paper and some crayons and start drawing what you see! Check out our activity guide for more help on sketching out a story. Want to dig into the data more? Download all the word counts, bigrams, or trigrams and investigate why "make" is used 21 times!
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