Strategy: Word clouds for key points
7 Keywords: Essay Planning, On Topic, Keywords, Structure, Main Points, Wordle, Auto Summarise
"Wordle can be used as a visualising strategy - I made a word cloud from a 5k word essay on Dickens hard times, top 150 words, black and white only - it shows me that I did in fact hit the key themes, but I probably over did it on the 'horse' example.
Reduce the number of words and a clearer picture emerges. I can read words as pictures pretty well - I can 'see' the summary much more quickly this way than by using auto summarise."
There is a Slide Share PowerPoint presentation on How to use Wordle.
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"Structuring written work and keeping on topic is something I need to work at because I have no sense of an ending – everything is in flow and has infinite connections."
- GeorgiaTip
Try Context Organizer and Worlde for analysing texts and gaining an insight into the key points, as well as using these types of word clouds for summarising ideas as suggested in this Assistive Technology blog.
