“Automatic text analysis” is the default setting Wordsmyth’s Wordlist Maker is preset for automatic text analysis and automatic word extraction. Type, or copy and paste, any text into the input box. Then click to enter. The Wordlist Maker will extract up to fifteen of the best academic vocabulary words from your text based on the … Read more
Registering with Wordsmyth will allow you to: 1. Click “Register” You will find the “Register” link on the top right of the page. 2. Fill out the user registration form Click the “Register” button. An email will be sent to you with an activation code. 3. Activate your account After clicking the “register” button, you … Read more
It’s rare, but it happens. You may want to delete an inactive and unwanted school URL. Here is how you can do it: 1. Go to settings on the account that set up the URL in the first place. 2. Go to the subscription tab in your settings, and click “Delete School URL” Please note … Read more
With the old activity makers (quizzes and glossaries) the wordlist that was entered was saved with each activity. That made it harder to re-use wordlists. In the new Vocabulary Center, users can create re-usable wordlists that are saved separately from the activities. A list can then be used with any activity– study tools, games, or … Read more
When you edit an existing word list but didn’t click the “preview and save” button, you will see this button next to your list in “My Word Lists.” It means that we noticed you made some changes but you didn’t directly confirm the changes. To be cautious, we saved your changes temporarily, just in case. … Read more
The following is a basic formula for citing a particular word’s entry in one of our dictionaries, which you can modify according to whatever style guide you are using. (Specific examples using APA or MLA follow this introduction.) 1. Begin with the headword, as Wordsmyth does not list an author or authors. (The examples below … Read more
When you create a wordlist in the Wordlist Maker, you can add more words to the list, even when the word is not in the Wordsmyth dictionaries. And you can use those words in activities. Click “Customize” and add the word in the “Add a word” box. You can also click “Preview and Save” and … Read more
Understanding how to use wild card symbols will increase your ability to find words you can’t spell or don’t fully recall. Wild card symbols also allow you to find groups of words that contain a particular letter pattern.
Nothing brings home to me just how much mileage I habitually rack up on the information highway like a glance at my browser history. Whether it’s showing me locations I visited “last week,” “yesterday,” or even earlier “today,” the amount and the variety of the terrain covered is impressive. Many of the URLs that pop up … Read more
