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Grading Policy
Homework Total: 30%
Distant Reading Website: 20%
Theory Application Project: 20%
Video Project: 20%
Final Portfolio: 10%
Total Grade: Current Letter Grade Total
Tracking Your Grade
Distant Reading
An opinion about the text supported by statistical analysis and data models.
Close Reading
An opinion about the text supported by details, words, and phrases from the text.
Close and Distant Reading
Preparing a Corpus
- Clean the text,
- Upload to Voyant,
- Archive the URL
Our Distant Reading Process
Voyant Functions
Distant Reading Tools
- Terms - raw word counts
- Cirrus - visualization of word frequencies
- Terms Berry - visual representation of word frequnce and "collocates"
- Trends - a graph of relative frequencies throughout the text
https://voyant-tools.org/?corpus=dac85f88b51bb5fe34dc5f9d125df667
Distant Reading Notes
What did you discover in your notes?
Which of the four tools was useful to you?
What kinds of analysis might you use this distant reading tool?
think/pair/share
Our assignment is to build a website that discusses our distant reading project. We will:
- Discuss and describe our selected text,
- Perform close reading sharing an opinion about the text,
- Embed an interactive distant reading model,
- Provide a distant reading of how the data explains the text,
- Write a reflection on the tools of close and distant reading
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