Abstract

Teaching Disciplinary Writing Using Google Ngrams

Highlights

  • Student 7: Usage of heuristics and biases rise as Daniel Khaneman and Amos Tversky begin to popularize the field of decision-making with a focus on how heuristics are relevant to decision-making and how they can be impacted by biases

  • ● There does not seem to be any mention of psychology in literature until the late 1800’s, which makes sense because that is when this social science received recognition

  • Student 18: Smith: mentions are relatively constant since he wrote the first economic text in 1776 Economics: mentions of the discipline itself did not even register until the mid 1800s and have slowly risen over time and remained roughly constant since the 1940s

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Summary

Introduction

Google Ngrams (which analyzes a large corpus of books) charts the frequencies of words/phrases appearing in books across a span of time. 1. Enter in specific words/phrases, preferably related to your discipline, into Google Ngrams: https://books.google.com/ngrams. Discuss patterns you notice in the frequencies of words/phrases over time. ● Both the idea of business marketing and a specific marketing plan are fairly new and have increased.

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