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On Writing, Reading and Words…
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I’m always on the lookout for new and innovative ways to jog my creativity when writing. I always have my Thesaurus and Dictionary next to me, but there are times when I need to view how words relate to each other. A thesaurus is a great tool for this, but being a very visual person I’m always looking for more visual representation of displaying and viewing information. Some time back I came across a very innovative online dictionary based on Princeton University’s wordnet English database. Visuwords.com is unlike any online dictionary you may have used in the past, you simply type in a word and click on the “GO” button and a graphical representation of the word and all related words displays on the screen. The interface is very user friendly and extremely interactive and allows one to view the definition of words with coloured links indicating the relationships between words. It can be used an a traditional dictionary or as a very elaborate thesaurus. I’ve been using it to help my writing by entering in words and letting the system generate a sort of mind map of concepts/ideas. For those of you unfamiliar with mind maps I will be posting an article on what they are and their use in the near future. For now check out Visuwords.com and give it a spin, it may very likely become one of your favourite online tools.
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