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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 8 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 49759 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 77 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 man 3 York 3 United 3 New 2 paper 2 good 2 England 2 Chicago 1 year 1 writer 1 write 1 work 1 word 1 woman 1 true 1 time 1 subject 1 story 1 spelling 1 special 1 reader 1 press 1 prefer 1 look 1 life 1 girl 1 feature 1 editor 1 capitalization 1 avoid 1 article 1 american 1 advertising 1 advertisement 1 Wratten 1 WPA 1 Van 1 Troy 1 Tommy 1 Sunday 1 Sun 1 Street 1 States 1 State 1 St. 1 Smith 1 Scoop 1 Sara 1 Rivers 1 Quain Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 1193 man 745 day 637 paper 618 article 614 time 512 year 495 work 494 thing 464 life 409 story 404 room 382 newspaper 380 woman 368 word 364 way 345 writer 344 people 307 reader 304 name 286 girl 278 hand 258 office 245 business 244 place 244 editor 243 one 243 eye 242 world 241 night 237 something 237 news 230 person 230 letter 227 boy 216 interest 215 school 212 hour 209 use 206 week 203 part 203 face 202 nothing 202 city 199 magazine 198 money 198 dollar 197 moment 196 subject 194 child 194 capitalization Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 6094 _ 676 Humphrey 246 New 221 Ferrol 202 Perner 194 Press 192 Van 174 York 159 Street 137 Dorn 128 Beaver 127 Barrifield 123 Day 122 Livingstone 118 London 111 Wratten 106 Mrs. 106 Lilian 100 Free 97 Mr. 96 Elizabeth 92 Fleet 79 Sunday 79 Colonel 76 Quain 74 England 72 Tommy 68 States 68 Paris 68 Kenneth 64 United 63 Miss 62 Pride 61 Mr 61 Easterham 59 State 57 Bates 56 Carr 55 St. 55 Perny 55 Frisby 53 Chicago 52 News 48 | 48 Man 48 Louis 47 Carl 47 America 46 English 45 Whole Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 4142 he 4119 it 2966 i 2135 you 1706 they 1334 him 1149 we 1070 she 992 them 533 me 345 her 254 us 240 himself 105 themselves 98 itself 83 one 48 myself 36 herself 32 yourself 31 ourselves 31 ''s 21 ''em 15 his 14 mine 13 yours 6 hers 5 theirs 5 ours 3 je 2 you''re 2 oneself 2 i''m 1 yuh 1 yourselves 1 you''ll 1 ye 1 trousseau 1 thyself 1 she''ll 1 no!--(do 1 more--"that 1 hearts!--they 1 em 1 d''you Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 13133 be 4195 have 1987 do 1300 say 975 make 908 go 861 come 817 know 689 get 683 see 620 give 562 take 517 think 514 write 437 use 423 tell 420 look 368 find 340 want 319 seem 279 ask 255 begin 253 call 244 mean 237 feel 233 leave 228 keep 225 work 219 show 211 read 211 become 206 pay 205 put 197 stand 194 send 187 bring 182 let 178 sit 177 talk 173 follow 172 live 171 pass 167 hold 157 speak 153 hear 152 run 150 print 149 turn 133 happen 132 prefer Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2762 not 770 so 680 more 616 up 585 only 566 good 555 other 550 first 537 out 503 then 502 well 480 now 468 great 453 little 390 old 361 most 357 never 352 just 350 even 343 very 334 long 332 as 328 too 316 such 307 much 301 own 295 new 290 down 280 many 279 always 266 all 257 here 243 few 242 same 239 back 233 last 224 there 212 again 211 still 208 special 208 away 207 young 206 in 198 on 193 large 184 enough 177 once 171 also 169 small 158 true Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 154 good 131 most 74 least 48 great 21 high 17 Most 15 late 11 strong 11 big 10 bad 9 simple 9 near 9 fine 8 large 8 early 6 new 6 hard 5 young 5 slight 5 common 4 small 4 old 4 deep 4 -Germans 3 weak 3 smart 3 safe 3 quick 3 low 3 happy 3 full 3 fast 3 easy 3 cheap 3 base 3 -First 2 vague 2 topmost 2 rich 2 poor 2 mere 2 l 2 fat 2 faint 2 dear 2 bright 2 able 1 wr 1 white 1 this"--a Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 230 most 20 well 20 least 2 worst 2 highest 1 hard Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 _ is _ 7 _ are _ 4 _ do n''t 4 _ look _ 4 humphrey had never 4 man is _ 3 _ do not 3 _ is not 3 _ know _ 3 _ leaves _ 3 _ means _ 3 _ say _ 3 _ want _ 3 _ was _ 3 humphrey had not 3 humphrey went back 2 _ am _ 2 _ did _ 2 _ does not 2 _ feel _ 2 _ means primarily 2 _ take place 2 _ were _ 2 _ were not 2 _ works _ 2 article is equally 2 article is essential 2 humphrey did not 2 humphrey had first 2 humphrey was about 2 humphrey went out 2 man does not 2 people did not 2 people do n''t 2 people have not 2 reader is not 2 story is not 2 story is worth 2 thing goes on 2 things were slack 2 words are not 2 writer is about 1 * do n''t 1 _ ai n''t 1 _ are plural 1 _ be _ 1 _ begin _ 1 _ call _ 1 _ call attention 1 _ did n''t Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 _ is not only 1 _ does not necessarily 1 _ were not _ 1 _ were not there 1 articles are not puppets 1 day are not apt 1 girls have no such 1 humphrey had no desk 1 humphrey had no knowledge 1 life ''s not so 1 man is not so 1 newspaper is no place 1 paper had no limits 1 paper read no more 1 papers are no longer 1 people are not only 1 people have not enough 1 place was no longer 1 reader is not conscious 1 reader is not familiar 1 story is not newspaper 1 things come not back 1 time is not yet 1 women have not heretofore 1 word meant no more 1 words are not necessary 1 world was not yet 1 writer has no especial A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 18018 author = Belloc, Hilaire title = The Free Press date = keywords = Age; Capitalist; England; Free; New; Official; Press; man; paper summary = represented by the great Capitalist Press was a power equal with that great modern Capitalist Press is _merely_ a channel for the the great Capitalist papers a crop of new organs which _are_ in the That is why you nearly always find the Free Press directed by men of most powerful motive for the creation of a Free Press. Such being the motive powers of the Free Press in all countries, but The Free Press gave one the truth but its various organs "New Witness," and the specifically Socialist Free Press pointed it The Free Press is rigorously boycotted by the great advertisers, _in the Free Press alone_ of advertisements appearing in every other Free Press papers have. The first thing to note is that the Free Press is not read Commons, the Free Press played a very great part, though it was never Free Press is its power to effect democratic reform. id = 15718 author = Bleyer, Willard Grosvenor title = How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers date = keywords = Boston; Bureau; Carl; Chicago; City; County; English; Home; John; Kansas; Knefler; Louis; Magazine; Man; Miss; Mosquito; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Niagara; Peet; Pullman; St.; States; Sunday; Troy; United; York; american; article; feature; girl; good; reader; special; subject; time; woman; work; writer; year summary = university students to write special feature articles for newspapers and To train students to write articles for newspapers and popular magazines Special feature stories and popular magazine articles constitute a type resulted in a type of writing known as the "special feature article." Such articles, presenting interesting and timely subjects in popular of magazine sections print special feature stories based on news. may be asked by magazine editors to prepare articles on given subjects. writers, every publication welcomes special articles and short stories feature article for the _New York Herald_, and from a story-telling hour The _New York Evening Post_ published an interesting special article on special feature in the _New York Times_, that was based on an article in in an article in the Sunday magazine of the _New York Times_, by means the _New York Times_ printed in its Sunday magazine section a special id = 55535 author = Courlander, Alphonse title = Mightier than the Sword date = keywords = Beaver; Carr; Charnac; Club; Day; Desirée; Easterham; Elizabeth; England; Ferrol; Fleet; Humphrey; Kenneth; Lilian; London; Mrs; Paris; Pride; Quain; Rivers; Street; Tommy; Wratten; good; life; look; man summary = It was, I think, _The Day_ that finally discovered the Young Man. Ferrol had known the bitter opposition which he had fought in his own "Nice pig, isn''t he?" Beaver said to Humphrey, as Worthing went out. "Good-looking young man," said Rivers, as the door closed behind felt, suddenly, a great man--Humphrey Quain of _The Day_, cocksure, men, in the first few days of Humphrey''s life in the office of _The Since that day when Humphrey had first met him in Ferrol''s room, and he went into Rivers'' room, the great man smiled and said facetiously, "Everything!" said Humphrey, gloomily, looking round the room. Humphrey thought of the girl he had passed that day in the street.... "I didn''t know you went in for this sort of thing," Humphrey said. "Well, Quain," said Ferrol, as Humphrey came into the room. "Well, what do you think of the life to-day?" Humphrey asked. id = 32997 author = Detroit news title = The Style Book of The Detroit News date = keywords = Chicago; Detroit; Germany; Michigan; News; Smith; State; United; York; avoid; capitalization; man; prefer; spelling; story; word; write summary = As a general rule write heads in the present tense. Remember always in writing heads that although a newspaper man seldom uses bad grammar, correct him when you write the story. Actually get hold of new words and then use But when the reference is general use lower-case, as the good roads Capitalize only the distinguishing words if two or more names are Use no quotes in writing testimony with question and answer. Don''t use _citizens_ when you mean simply _persons_. Don''t write _a large per cent of_ when speaking of persons when you mean Do not use both numerals and figures spelled out in one phrase. Do not use state with names of well-known cities, such as Chicago, Use _Mich._ after the names of all places in the state except: In writing obituaries the reporter must use the greatest care, for it is Don''t use the words _suicide_ and _murder_ in heads on stories id = 53123 author = Grow, Julian F. title = The Trouble with Truth date = keywords = Edict; Nork; Sara; Scoop; Sun; WPA summary = "The WPA stinks," Sara said. "Oh, I almost forgot," Sara said, the way she does Sara had said about the _Sun_. "We had better," I said, "have a little talk." It led to the Edict, and of course to the World Press Association and "Now, Sara," I said. "You think--hold still!--a Reporter doesn''t have to know much," I told just sit there while news goes in the Scoop and comes out the Fotofax I think the Edict was a good thing. Look, it surely wasn''t good the way government was before. people aren''t, going to tell me that news isn''t just as important as "You," she said crisply, "are confusing news with the _Sun_. a quiet time like the end of the year. He had, a little, so I said, "Okay, what''s your story?" "Virginia," said the voice, "your little friends are wrong. As I said, I don''t know where it will end. id = 29953 author = Holt, Hamilton title = Commercialism and Journalism date = keywords = New; Post; United; York; advertisement; advertising; editor; paper; press summary = In olden times the dailies carried only a very little advertising--a owner of one of the leading evening papers in New York told me that 90 that in the good time coming, advertising will be relegated to the the advertisers pay good money to put it before the people--it is not Thus you see advertising has made possible the great complex papers and advertising still further increased, rival papers competed for it and Advertising is also responsible for the fact that our papers are no press agents in the city of New York,--that is, men and women employed the New York papers the other day read that a prominent Socialist, who good sum of money, hired a press agent, and bought advertising space in many papers still publish the advertisement of Mrs. Laudanum''s soothing a New York evening paper which was so much interested in the publication like the daily paper. id = 34023 author = Paine, Albert Bigelow title = The Bread Line: A Story of a Paper date = keywords = Barrifield; Barry; Bates; Colonel; Dorn; Family; Frisby; Livingstone; Perner; Perny; Van; true summary = "We want a good advertising man first," said Perner the businesslike. "Why, don''t you know?" said Van Dorn. studio where Livingstone, Van Dorn, and Perner still worked, though in a "I wouldn''t have believed it," said Van Dorn, taking it in his hand. "He said he wanted to get started with a new thing like Perner, Van Dorn, and Livingstone returned to their apartments. "Better eat while we''ve got a chance," said Van Dorn. "We can afford to eat on Van''s new scheme," said Perner. Perner finished reading and looked steadily at Barrifield, as did Van Van Dorn looked over at Perner anxiously. Perny; there''s plenty of time," said Van Dorn, pacifically. "Let''s see," said Livingstone and Van Dorn together. Perner looked steadily first at Livingstone, then at Van Dorn. Perner looked up from the letter at Van Dorn. following morning; at least, Perner and Van Dorn were, and Livingstone,