For humanities research or teaching projects, we each pick tools from our digital toolboxes. If we have few tools, our projects may be limited or take longer. When we become familiar with other tools, we may get ideas for other projects and learn how to do projects faster and better.
WordCruncher is a free digital toolkit with tools to help you search, study, analyze, download, create, and share eBooks or corpora. For example, you can add searchable notes, highlight text, do advanced searches, see search keywords in context, and find collocates or n-grams in WordCruncher books that may include formatted multilingual text, images, tags, hyperlinks, dictionaries, and lemma lists.
Other apps and online resources may lack helpful tools, tags, markup, formatting, speed, or data. One linguist used online data to create a 700 million-word WordCruncher corpus. He said, “I couldn\u27t have done a lot of my research with what is out there.”
For many years, our team has helped BYU faculty, research assistants, and students use WordCruncher tools to answer research questions and enhance student learning. We often help convert digital materials into a WordCruncher book or corpus designed to facilitate a project.
This presentation will be a quick overview of several projects that illustrate how faculty and students have used WordCrunchertools and data
