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WordCruncher User Guide For General Users Last updated August 24, 2020 Copyright © 1991–2020 Brigham Young University Provo, Utah, USA. All rights reserved. WordCruncher® Copyright © 1991–2020 Brigham Young University Provo, Utah, USA. All rights reserved. WordCruncher User Guide for General Users © First Edition March 2020 WordCruncher Version 7.1.100, Build 100 as of March 24, 2020 WordCruncher® and the WordCruncher logo are registered trademarks of Brigham Young University. WordCruncher is a closed source program. While WordCruncher Development tries to give the best resources to users, we reserve the right to make changes to any of the features, reports, and datasets within WordCruncher. Suggestions for improvements are welcome but will be evaluated based on current priorities. The use of WordCruncher is free. Books that are purchased through the bookstore are connected to a user account. The WordCruncher Support team keeps a record of all book purchases. 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Licensor makes no warranties, whether express or implied, including the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, and specifically no warranties or representations are made with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the data. 2 Table of Contents About WordCruncher 3 General Purposes of WordCruncher 4 Studying Texts Analyzing Linguistic Features 4 Getting Started 5 Downloading Books 5 Downloading a Free Book Available on WordCruncher 5 Downloading the English Scriptures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 9 Downloading General Conference Addresses from 1971 to 2019 10 Downloading General Conference Addresses from 1839 to 1970 12 Downloading the Book of Mormon with Voices Identified 13 Opening Books 15 Opening Downloaded Book from the WordCruncher Bookstore Window 15 Opening a Downloaded Book from WordCruncher’s Main Screen 16 Analyzing Texts 17 Navigate 17 Navigating the Table of Contents 17 Using Tabbing Navigation 19 Highlight 20 Highlighting Text 20 Deleting a Highlight 21 Notes 21 Writing a Note 21 Opening a Note 23 Deleting a Note 24 Search 25 Searching for Words in Highlighted Sections 25 Searching in Your Notes 26 Searching for Exact Matches of Words or Phrases in the Text 26 Searching for Partial Matches of Words or Phrases in the Text 27 Searching All Forms of a Word in the Text 28 Searching for Misspellings or Errors Using the WordWheel 29 Other Scriptural Resources 30 Voices in the Book of Mormon 30 Switching from Text Order to Voice Order 30 Switching from Voice Order to Text Order 31 Searching Within a Specific Voice in the Book of Mormon 31 English Bible Collection 33 Viewing Books in the Bible Collection 34 Comparing Versions of the Bible 35 3 About WordCruncher WordCruncher is a free software program used for text analysis, annotation, and comparison. Developed by a group of linguists at Brigham Young University, this program was originally designed for the study of religious documents of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. WordCruncher is currently overseen by the Digital Humanities Department of BYU, which has since expanded the software’s scope to enable users to process any large digitized text. WordCruncher integrates a multitude of text analysis tools that help users search for words and phrases; study texts with bookmarks, highlights, and dictionaries; and analyze linguistic features. These tools are tailored to various fields of study. Corpus users will find the array of tools for analyzing customized corpora or collections of text beneficial for linguistic analysis. Linguists and translators can use these tools to study context and compare across languages, while editors may benefit from tools that highlight trends in grammar and usage to inform their editing choices. This user guide focuses on general tools that will enhance the experience of all WordCruncher users; however, there are audience-specific user guides available for specialized users. You can access the CORPUS user guide, LANGUAGE/TRANSLATION user guide, and EDITING user guide on http://wordcruncher.com/. System requirements and installation information can be found on http://wordcruncher.com/install/. 4 General Purposes of WordCruncher WordCruncher has two general purposes: studying texts and analyzing linguistic features. Studying Texts WordCruncher allows users to access free books for study. Below is a description of some basic options that WordCruncher offers for study: ● You can download several free texts to open in WordCruncher. ● You can read the Book of Mormon with Voices Identified, which tags verses with their original author/speaker, and searches within the words attributed to each author or speaker. ● You can compare versions of the Bible by downloading the Bible collection book, which includes several versions of the Bible. ● You can annotate your texts as you study with notes and highlights, which you can search for after they are saved. Analyzing Linguistic Features WordCruncher allows users to analyze linguistic features of a document. Below is a description of some basic functions that WordCruncher offers for linguistic analysis: ● You can look at collocates (phrases you commonly find near a specific word). For example, if you look up the word truth, you can find other words or phrases that the word is often next to, like truth and righteousness or sword of truth. ● You can create phrase lists—for example, lists of first person singular pronouns— which primarily help you search for a list of words within a category. ● You can look at word frequency to see the number of times a word is used within a text or corpus. When searching for word frequency, you may expand or restrict your search results to show all forms of the word or only the exact word you are searching. ● You can discover word relationships by using one of the three types of Boolean logic: or logic to compare the usage of two terms; and logic to determine the number of words between your searched terms; and not logic to exclude some of the surrounding results of your search term. 5 Getting Started The first step to analyzing the linguist features of a book is to download and open the book or books you want to analyze. This Getting Started portion of the document will teach you how to download and open books. If you already know how to perform these functions, please skip to the Analyzing Texts portion of this user guide. Downloading Free Texts The following section will teach you how to download free texts on WordCruncher. Since the books most commonly analyzed in WordCruncher up to now are the English scriptures and the General Conferences addresses from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, those will be shown in many of the instructions below. Downloading a Free Book Available on WordCruncher This set of instructions will teach you how to download a free book available on WordCruncher. Note: Most of the books on WordCruncher are free. 1. Open the bookstore either by clicking on the Bookstore button in the toolbar or by clicking on the File menu and selecting the WordCruncher Bookstore option. Note: The Bookstore button from the toolbar and the WordCruncher Bookstore option from the drop-down menu will both open the WordCruncher Bookstore window. 2. Find the book from the WordCruncher Bookstore that you want to download. 6 3. Click the Free button next to the book you want to download. Note: Some books will have a price instead of the word Free. If this is the case and you would like to purchase the book, please create an account within the Account tab. Note: Clicking the Free button will open the Product Downloads window. 4. Click the Install button for the book you want to install. 7 5. Wait for the book to install. Note: Once the book has been installed, a red banner with the word installed will appear across the corner of the book’s picture. 6. Click the OK button in the Product Downloads window after the book has finished installing. 7. Click the OK button on the WordCruncher Bookstore window to close the bookstore. 8 Downloading the English Scriptures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints This section will teach you how to download The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ book collection of English scriptures, since these books are some of the most commonly analyzed books on WordCruncher. This book collection contains the King James Version of the Holy Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, the Pearl of Great Price, study helps, photographs, and maps. It also contains additional resources including the English Parallel Bible, the English Parallel Bible—Advanced, the Hebrew-English Lexicon of the Old Testament, and the Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament. To download this book collection, follow the instructions below. 1. Open the bookstore either by clicking on the Bookstore button on the toolbar or by clicking on the File menu and selecting the WordCruncher Bookstore option. Note: The Bookstore button from the toolbar and the WordCruncher Bookstore option from the drop-down menu will both open the WordCruncher Bookstore window. Within the bookstore, you will be defaulted to WordCruncher’s general library. 9 2. Click the Collection drop-down menu and select the Gospel Library option. 3. Find the book called The Scriptures. 4. Click the Free button next to The Scriptures to open the Products Download window. 5. Click the Install All button in the Products Download window. 6. Wait for the books to install. Note: Once the book has been installed, a red banner with the word installed will appear across the corner of the book’s picture. 7. Click the OK button in the Product Downloads window after the book has finished installing.