C. Working with Data

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to describe the basic parts of a dictionary entry and discuss their relationship, as well as possible ways to order the major elements in a published presentation.

By the end of this lesson, you will able to describe the different types of entries, both from a structural perspective and a formatting perspective.

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to create a new lexical entry in the FLEx database, providing the most basic information about it.

By the end of this lesson, you will have created several entries, deleted an entry, and practiced sorting and filtering. You will also know how to find specific entries in FLEx.

By the end of this lesson, you will understand how to analyze and assign syntactic categories to words and how to enter those categories into a FLEx database.

By the end of this lesson, you will know how to discover the meaning of words, be able to write good definitions, and know how to choose appropriate glosses for words in a bilingual/multilingual dictionary.

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to identify and craft well-designed illustrative sentences for the headwords in your dictionary and be able to enter them into the FLEx database.

By the end of this lesson, you will have used the Configure Dictionary tool in FLEx to choose which fields in an entry to display and the order in which they will be displayed.

By the end of this lesson, you will know the difference between a citation form and a lexeme form, when you need a citation form that is different from the lexeme form for a given entry, and some principles to assist in choosing the best one.