Wonderful Wordle Richmond Writing

Wonderful Wordle Richmond Writing Wordle is one of several tag cloud   sites that can be fun to play with and may have useful potentials for writing and reading.   A tag cloud or word cloud image functions like a visual concordance that reveals word frequency through font size. Most of these sites have various tools for adjusting the image, font, orientation and number of words processed so that a variety of readings are possible. Heres a word cloud made from our WAC Program page that portrays writing as the foundation of a program involving curriculum, consultants and faculty. Other permutations of this image left the word writing looming ominously above the other words, perhaps suggesting a potentially crushing descent. And heres a word cloud I made with Maria Rajtiks newsletter submission Feedback: A Grade is more than a letter   Word clouds can also enhance literary discussion. One word cloud I made for Gilmans story The Yellow Wallpaper surprised me by demonstrating that the name of John was the most prominent word in the story even though the tale is about a woman being subjected to the rest cure of the celebrity Dr. Weir Mitchell. Others have been Presidential Inauguration speech word clouds to provide interesting insights into their rhetorical patterns and even the economic prognostications of Fed Chair Ben Bernanke have been fed into word cloud generators to see what comes out. This new digital tool could be usefully applied to famous speeches, editorial essays, mission statements and even personal writing. To create effective word clouds Smashing design magazine suggests a few good practices . Here is a word cloud of the first 100 words of The Richmond Promise A Word cloud of Sarah Palins Tea Party speech is revealing What texts come to your mind for word cloud analysis? Check out these other word cloud sites and start your own experiments: Free online word cloud generator TagCrowd Tagxedo Many Eyes