ABSTRACT
In the remaining chapters of Part I, we detail a research study we undertook to
prepare a catalog of English strings as priming instruments. We describe the
properties we looked for when selecting strings for our catalog. We describe our
method of categorizing strings, including the assistance of computer-supported
coding. This has allowed us to catalog over 500 million unique English strings
across a range of audience experience categories. We also describe the tensions
we felt between viewing our catalog as a closed coding scheme and as an
organic social system, with defined social conventions in the classroom that
allowed students to confer over and recommend changes to the catalog, with
their recommendations often binding on our changing the catalog.
