I’ve also found tag clouds to be useful in my own work, for much the same reason. It’s also visually more interesting, which really helps make it a useful exercise for perceiving new things about what you’ve written. Putting a draft into a tag cloud means that you can see if the actual composition of your text matches what you want it to say (if it’s about the Mongols and Marco Polo, does the tag cloud reflect that– or are the most frequent words “road” and “Europe, or something like that). Tag clouds are really helpful as a tool that gets students to break their work down and see aspects that they could change. It’s really difficult to get students to think about their drafts as _drafts_– one of the big high school-to-college transitions is moving away from the “write something, boom, done, turn it in” model. Jen says, “I was introduced to Tag Crowd while I worked at the Writing Studio up at Duke it was presented as one of the tools that would be useful for getting students (particularly first-year students taking the required writing seminar course) to think about their writing in a new way. If they don’t match up, they have to write about what steps they’ll take to make their essay more focused.Several students have told me they used these tools to draft and revise their essays, and not surprisingly these students tended to write stronger essays.”(updated 8/21): Jen Welsh, Assistant Professor in History, also uses tag clouds to improve writing. Before the exercise, they write down what they think are their essay’s key terms and then they run it through Wordle, checking to see if the two match up. Warnick says, “With Wordle (a word cloud generator), I ask students to run a draft of their essay through the program to identify their key terms. Chris Warnick, Assistant Professor in English, uses word clouds to help students accomplish this goal.
#WORDLE WORD CLOUD GENERATOR GENERATOR#
By running the text of a paper through the cloud generator a student can easily see if the main points displayed in the cloud match the main points they hoped to cover or convey in their writing. Students can use word clouds to analyze their own writing. Displaying text in a word cloud can allow the visual learners to see text in a whole new way.(1) It also allows all learning styles to view the text in a different way. So how can word clouds be used to help students improve their writing and reading comprehension? The written word is geared toward the verbal learning style. Below is an example of a cloud representation of the TLT Services website:
In a word cloud the more a word is used in a group of words or a document the larger it will appear in the graphic. A word cloud, also called a tag cloud, is a graphical representation of text data.
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