Using a Concodancer

In this lab session, we will do the exercise on pages 68 and 69 of CALL, by Hardisty and Windeatt, using the free concordancer from Hong Kong,  (http://www.edict.com.hk/PUB/concapp/ ), and a text of Agatha Christie from the Gutenberg project (“Top 100 books downloaded this week”) http://www.gutenberg.net/browse/scores/top .

A. Install Concapp:

1. Insert the disk and drag the file “concapp” to the desktop.
2. Once on the desktop, double-click on the “concapp” folder to open it.
3. Double Click on the SETUP icon—icon of a computer and a box of software--to install.  If you have Windows XP Service Pack 2, it won’t install, you’ll have to keep it in its folder and do steps 4 and 5.
4. Right click on the purple striped icon that says Concapp application,
5. And make a shortcut to the desktop.

B.  Put Agatha Christie and The Real Mother Goose on your desktop.

     1.  Drag the note-pad files, Secret Adversary, and The Real Mother Goose, to the desktop.

C.  Working with the concordancer, Concapp.

      1,  Open Concordancer

      2.  File>open>desktop>Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

      3.  Go to “concordance” menu and down to “Search”

      4.  Type the word “may”(without apostrophe) in the “Search String” box.

      5.   Click “OK.”

      6.   You will now see all the phrases in the book where there is the word

            may.

6. Right click on one of the colored words(may) to see the word in its    

complete sentence.

7. Copy and paste the complete sentence into word.
8. Repeat steps 6 and 7 for 4 more “may”s.
9. Add a little introduction, such as “Project to find use of may in Agatha Christie.”  Save to Floppy and later paste into FrontPage if you are not online, or just copy and paste it into a new page in Frontpage when you are on line at www.angelfire.com/art2/englishwithcomputer. 
10. Save as(in Front Page) and make a link to yourname2.htm on your page.