Valid Project Question? (Text Analyses)

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ooosssososos
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Project Question: I am going to do the text analyses Project located here: http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-f ... ml#summary
Project Due Date: Feb 6th
Project Status: I am just starting

Valid Project Question? (Text Analyses)

Post by ooosssososos »

Well im starting the project about text analyses located here:https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... ml#summary
But i dont exactly know what to set my question as so it is a fair test. what im thinking right now is
'How can you determine the person from their writing style"
or
"is it possible to determine the person from their writing style"
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Re: Valid Project Question? (Text Analyses)

Post by hhemken »

ooosssososos,

For this project to be really interesting and show cool results, you may need to analyze largish samples of each person's texts, and then see if you can use those results to answer a question like "Is this new unknown text written by this author?" Luckily, there are places where you can get entire books by specific people:

http://www.gutenberg.org/
http://archive.org/

That way you will be highly likely to answer the questions "how can you determine the person from their writing style?" or "is it possible to determine the person from their writing style?"

BTW, I think "is it possible to determine the person from their writing style?" is the better phrased question of the two, and I would bet money that you will discover that it is indeed possible.

Good luck!

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