Here is a preview of our initial project we did together about Looking Backward…   And here is a summary of our final project proposal….   And finally, our final project, linked below! https://iris.siue.edu/scalar/an-analysis-of-looking-backward/index So yeah! That is all!

Let’s be honest – group work can either be the most delightful or most agonizing experience. We all have to go through it whether we like it or not; we have all had times where we pray for a project to be individual, but then the professor says the dreaded, “And now I’m going to put you in groups.” I believe the finished product of a collaboration can turn out well if the collaboration itself is not a fair or delightful experience, even if this may not seem necessarily equitable to the one doing all the work. I also believe, however, that a finished product can also turn out badly…

Gephi was definitely the most challenging tool I have come across in this class so far. I found it near-impossible to be able to even be able to download it on my laptop, as I ran into several error messages when trying to open it. It falsely told me I did not have the most up-to-date version of Java, and when I could open it (once in every blue moon), it would immediately close the second I clicked on something. When I finally got it to work (shout-out to Bill for using his computer whiz skills on my laptop), I became intimidated by all of the tedious, detail-oriented work it took…

Chapters 1-3 by March 27 Chapters 4-24 by April 1 Chapters 25-end by April 3   For research, Gabby will find 5 sources (3 novel related, 2 DH related), and I will find 5 sources (3 DH related, 2 novel related).

I found TimelineJS to be an extremely helpful tool. Though it was intimidating for me to use Google Sheets in such a way for the first time, I quickly got the hang of it and actually enjoyed the experience. In addition to that, the home page on TimelineJS had a tutorial video, which I ended up watching since I did not want to risk messing up a visual tool for learning which I know others would be looking at. I love creating things such as PowerPoints and Prezis, so this tool seemed to be no different to me. Furthermore, I enjoy learning through visualizations such as timelines, so this was…

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I have found Annotation Studio to be an extremely helpful tool in my reading process. I usually have a difficult time close-reading and, therefore, really taking a deep dive to understand and evaluate the text as well as the characters in the text; however, using Annotation Studio made it easier for me to pay more attention to what I am reading. Something about being able to easily and neatly mark down my thoughts makes it not only easier to track my thought process throughout the novel, but also makes it easier for me to go back and find theories I have come up with through the “tags” feature. While it…

In beginning my tinkering with on Voyant, I entered the full text of Herland in the search, as entering the URL of the e-text did not at all give accurate results regarding the contents of the text. Once being navigated to the Corpus, it became clear that the novel at least has something to do with women and men named Terry and Jeff, as these were among the most frequently used words. The word “country” also popped up quite a bit (137 times, compared to “Jeff” being mentioned 152 times); this caused me to assume the women and these men had something to do with a country. Looking back after…

My name is Colleen Moroney, and I am a senior here at SIUE with a double major in Psychology and English. With this, I am aiming to go to graduate school for either School Psychology or Environmental Psychology (I have yet to decide). In the Fall of 2017, I actually transferred here from Missouri State University, where I completed my first two years. I decided to come to SIUE because it is closer to home (St. Louis), as I was feeling extremely homesick. That is odd for me to say, as I originally chose a college far from home to get away. Besides getting to see my family more, another…