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What is this text analyzing tool? What is it used for? Can anyone explain more about that?
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It breaks texts down into certain statistical categories, showing how complex the text is in terms of vocabulary and allowing you to compare your writing with texts of similar subjects, etc.

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We first have to clarify something. There are to important tools that resemble to each other but they are different: analysis and interpretation of a text. The difference is the following:a) analysis - the proces of studying or examining something in detail in order to understand it or explain it
b)interpretation - to translate what someone is saying; an explanation of the meaning of something

A good way to understand text analysis is to look at the tradition of concordancing from which it evolved. A concordance is a standard study tool where one can look up a word and find references to all the passages in the target work where that word occurs. They are alphabetically-sorted lists of the vocabulary of a text. Occurrences of each word appear under a headword, each one surrounded by enough context to make out the meaning, and each one identified by a citation to the text that gives its location in the original.

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