Software for analyzing a manuscript?
I would like to get a better picture of a manuscript I've written, especially in regards to word usage patterns and potentially overused terms.
I'm curious whether anyone can recommend a document analysis tool.
Specifically, is there a program that takes a Microsoft Word document and produces a spreadsheet of all the words contained in the document and the number of times the word appears?
e.g.
cat 23
said 15
jumped 12
dog 7
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Scrivener, a program by literature and latte, will help with this. This is just one of the features--it's super-advanced and a complete lifesaver for anyone writing anything. I use it for scripts and novels, and sometimes just for its organization and fullscreen for my papers. It's amazing. Free trial lasts a while, but it's always in beta so you can usually get it w/o paying :) scrivener: www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html
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Bing search for word frequency gets these two promising programs. Not for Word documents, but that's not a huge problem since you can save as text or copy-paste.
http://wordfrequencycounter.com/
Another: http://www.primitivezone.com/primitive-word-counter.html
I'm actually writing a writing app for Windows now. It'd be pretty easy to add frequency in as a tool... Hmm.
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This isn't precisely what you're looking for, but it's interesting:
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