{"id":93,"date":"2017-09-18T17:26:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T17:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495\/?page_id=93"},"modified":"2017-09-21T19:12:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T19:12:52","slug":"super-rich-annotation-assignment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495\/super-rich-annotation-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Super-rich Annotation Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Show me what you&#8217;ve learned about digital reading and annotation. \u00a0However, instead of writing an essay or taking a test, you&#8217;re going to produce a super-richly annotated text. \u00a0The purpose of your annotations is to guide the reader into a deeper, fuller understanding of your text. \u00a0The purpose of the annotations is <strong>NOT<\/strong> to offer the reader one interpretation of the text. \u00a0(Recall <a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/2771624\">the Genius annotations of &#8220;Bartelby&#8221;<\/a> and how so many of them seemed to prosecute an argument rather than encourage to us think more deeply or widely about the story.) \u00a0Your super-richly annotated text will be due: <strong>noon, Tuesday, October 3<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>To complete this assignment successfully, you&#8217;ll need to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>select a text to annotate and post as a page to your WordPress site. \u00a0The text can be a short story or a poem or even an excerpt from a novel. \u00a0It probably shouldn&#8217;t be too long or too short &#8211; &#8211; think about a range between Natalie Diaz&#8217;s poem and &#8220;Bartelby the Scrivener.&#8221; Make sure you text is well-formatted as a WordPress page, e.g. no big spaces between lines or weird font changes or etc. \u00a0(10 pts.)<\/li>\n<li>install and activate <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/hypothesis\/\">the Hypothesis plugin<\/a> on your page. \u00a0This can be located and installed through the &#8220;plugins&#8221; menu on your WordPress dashboard. \u00a0(10 pts.)<\/li>\n<li>add eight (8) annotations to your page, thusly:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; keeping in mind the categories I proposed when we looked at the annotated versions of &#8220;Bartelby,&#8221; you should supply two (2) annotations for each of the following two categories: context (think of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/culturebox\/2015\/10\/herman_melville_s_bartleby_the_scrivener_an_interactive_annotated_text.html\">Kahn&#8217;s John Jacob Astor annotation<\/a> on Bartleby); patterns (a good example of this might be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/culturebox\/2015\/10\/herman_melville_s_bartleby_the_scrivener_an_interactive_annotated_text.html\">Kahn&#8217;s annotation on Bartelby&#8217;s &#8220;fetal position&#8221;<\/a> at the end of the story or his annotation of the narrator&#8217;s &#8220;No, not to-day, Turkey&#8221;) (20 pts);<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; \u00a0supply four (4) annotations in the &#8220;ways of reading&#8221; category, e.g. look at Kahn&#8217;s annotation of &#8220;You will not?&#8221; or of the narrator&#8217;s &#8220;cadaverously gentlemanly nonchalance.&#8221; (50 pts.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>your annotations should take maximum advantage of the multimodal possibilities (linking, images, video, etc.) of the Hypothesis tool. (10 pts.)<\/li>\n<li>your annotations should be free of grammatical, typographical, and spelling errors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To produce rich annotations, you&#8217;ll have to do a little research on your text. \u00a0You can use scholarly articles, book reviews, even Wikipedia. \u00a0Much of this material can be located via the SFSU library databases or Google scholar. \u00a0(Be sure to hyperlink to any reference material.)<\/p>\n<p>There is no maximum or minimum length to annotations. \u00a0It&#8217;s better to think about length in terms of quality. \u00a0E.g. is the annotation rich enough to help the reader? Is the annotation so lengthy that it distracts the reader? (Again, think about our discussion of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/culturebox\/2015\/10\/herman_melville_s_bartleby_the_scrivener_an_interactive_annotated_text.html\">Kahn<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/2771624\">Genius<\/a> annotations.)<\/p>\n<p>Questions? \u00a0Let me know.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Show me what you&#8217;ve learned about digital reading and annotation. \u00a0However, instead of writing an essay or taking a test, you&#8217;re going to produce a super-richly annotated text. \u00a0The purpose of your annotations is to guide the reader into a deeper, fuller understanding of your text. \u00a0The purpose of the annotations is NOT to offer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495\/super-rich-annotation-assignment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Super-rich Annotation Assignment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"class_list":["post-93","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}