Remember: VisuWord Assignment

VisuWords:  This is a term long project.  You are to make a personal dictionary consisting of 25 words that you have come across in your readings that confuse you. Personal Dictionary is to be submitted by the date noted on the course assignment.  Please type click on this link: VisuWord Links to an external site.to access the site.  You may use either MS Word or PowerPoint to complete this assignment.

 

1. Identify a word that you are unfamiliar with from one of your readings.

2. Provide the complete source citation in MLA formatting for the reading that contains the word.

3. Using the link provided, look the word up in VisuWord.

4.  Take a “screen shot” of the diagrammed dictionary VisuWords provides you. 

5.  As you locate new words, repeat this process. 

In the end, you will submit 1 file consisting of 25 words with an original cover page. 

 

Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary — Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn  how words associate.

Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree. Click and drag the background to pan around and use the mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes to see the definition and click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections.

• It's a dictionary! It's a thesaurus!
• Great for writers, journalists, students, teachers, and artists.
• The online dictionary is available wherever there’s an internet connection.
• No membership required.

Visuwords™ uses Princeton University’s WordNet Links to an external site., an opensource database built by University students and language researchers. Combined with a visualization tool and user interface built from a combination of modern web technologies, Visuwords™ is available as a free resource to all patrons of the web.