Analyze My Writing

This site, Analyze My Writing, allows users to copy and paste text from their document and have it analyzed.
Users can get basic text statistics, word clouds, common words and phrases, readability levels and much more.

Looks like this could be a great tool for students to use that goes beyond the basic word cloud analysis like Wordle or Tagul provides.

Give it a try with your text or their practice text.

http://www.analyzemywriting.com/

Use a Word Cloud to Analyze the SOTU Address

President Obama gave the State of the Union address last night. This would be a great time to work on analyzing text with students.

Take the text from the speech (found as prepared for delivery).
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/01/24/remarks-president-state-union-address

Highlight and copy that text.

Go to Wordle.net to create the word cloud. http://www.wordle.net/create

Paste in the text into the text field

Click the Go button
 


Once the word cloud is created you can play with the font, layout, and color to adjust your cloud to your preference.





























Now students can analyze the speech by looking at the words that stand out most.














Then you can do the same for the Republican response and compare the words used most in each speech.