{"id":151,"date":"2017-11-14T20:31:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T20:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495\/?page_id=151"},"modified":"2017-11-14T20:34:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T20:34:05","slug":"how-not-to-read-a-novelnarrative-assignment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495\/how-not-to-read-a-novelnarrative-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"How Not to Read a Novel\/Narrative Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"

This project will sum up what you’ve learned about approaching a text as data – – rather than or in addition to approaching a text as a contained, coherent, meaningful whole.\u00a0 This is not an essay<\/strong>.\u00a0 Instead, think of it as a report.\u00a0 You should post your report – – as a page – – to your WordPress site.<\/p>\n

Here’s what you’ll need to do:<\/p>\n

First<\/strong>, follow the “algorithmic” procedures you’ve already practiced on\u00a0our Alger corpus<\/a> (and on your original text).\u00a0 I.e. to write your report, you will have to first:<\/p>\n

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  1. after cleaning up the text file for your novel\/narrative, upload the file to Voyant and analyze your text with as many Voyant tools as you can.\u00a0 Your goal here is to find significant patterns within the text and to generate interesting questions for further inquiry.<\/li>\n
  2. \u00a0next, create a corpus.\u00a0 You should first figure out how you will organize this corpus: by author, by theme, by genre, by date, etc.\u00a0 Download\/upload at least 5 texts – – including your original text – –\u00a0 into Voyant.\u00a0 Again, use the Voyant tools to: find or expand on significant patterns generated by your original text; test and explore the questions that you produced from step one above across an entire corpus.<\/li>\n
  3. do a very distant reading.\u00a0 Here, you will take the results of your first two steps and use Google’s Ngram viewer to explore these results at a longer and broader level – – using thousands of texts and looking across decades. \n

    Second<\/strong>, your final report should be divided into the following sections:<\/p>\n

    1.Method<\/strong>: describe how you used Voyant and Ngram for each step.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    2.Process<\/strong>: explain how your intellectual inquiry developed through all three stages.\u00a0 In other words, what kinds of questions, surprises, discoveries occurred at each of the three steps (see above).<\/p>\n

    3.Reflections<\/strong>: explain two things: sum up what you think you’ve learned about your original text via algorithmic criticism; and, what you’ve learned about doing algorithmic criticism.<\/p>\n

    Keep your prose clear and error-free.\u00a0 Use images, charts, etc. from Voyant and Ngram viewer to illustrate your report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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