Concord

What is Concord?

For what agreement?

The point of an agreement is to be able to see many examples of a word or phrase in its contexts. You have a much better idea of using a word by seeing many examples of it, and it is by seeing or hearing new words in context many times that you understand the meaning of most words in your native language. It's by seeing the contexts that you have a better idea about how to use the new word. A dictionary can tell the meanings, but it's not very good at showing how to use the word.

Students

 Use Concord to figure out how to use a word or phrase, or to find out what other words work aggregated to a word they want to use. For example, it is through the use of Concord that you may find that in academic writing, an article can describe, claim, or show, although you don't believe or want to (* this article wants to prove it...).

Teachers

Use Concord to find similar patterns to help your students. They can also use Concord to help produce vocabulary exercises by choosing two or three search words, deleting them, and then printing them.

Researchers

Concord helps, for example, by searching a database of hospital accident records to see if the fracture is associated with fall, grease, or ladder. Or examine historical documents to find all references to land ownership.

System requirements

Windows XP or higher;

100 MB of free hard drive space;

1 GB RAM;