Ideas to Try

At Holt.Blue we encourage our users to participate in the process of inquiry and discovery! Below you will find a growing collection of miscellaneous experiments and snippets we have tried and have found interesting and we believe that you will find them interesting too. They are repeatable experiments which bring a love of language and science together!

As such, we encourage you to try them yourself! We also hope that you will use them as a starting point for your own pet projects or lesson plans. In any case let us know what you have tried!

State of the Union Sampler: Has the State of the Union Become... dumber?

A Tale of Two Densities: Wikipedia vs. The Short Story. Comparing Lexical Densities.

What Did I Just Agree To? Online Privacy Policies and Readability.

Journalism Across the Pond: BBC News vs. The New York Times. A Very Informal Comparison.

Random Gutenberg: Readability, Lexical Density and Semicolon Usage Data from a Random Sample of Project Gutenberg e-books.

Three Celebrities. Three Politicians. An Informal Analysis of Six Interview Transcripts.

Are Active Sentences More Lexically Dense? Be Active when Using Passive Voice.