EEBO-TCP as a tool for integrating teaching and research
<p>The availability of TCP-EEBO texts enables research-based teaching, and indeed research-discoveries by undergraduates. Textlab, a course which is part of the Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) initiative at The University of Strathclyde, integrates students from all levels, and seeks to f...
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| description | <p>The availability of TCP-EEBO texts enables research-based teaching, and indeed research-discoveries by undergraduates. Textlab, a course which is part of the Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) initiative at The University of Strathclyde, integrates students from all levels, and seeks to foster collaboration between students and faculty from a variety of disciplines and promote research-led teaching on Early Modern literature. Students work in teams, testing newly developed software programmes to identify specific linguistic features of literary texts. Textlab is related to the international “Visualizing English Print from 1470-1800” project (funded by the Mellon Foundation), which involves collaboration between The University of Strathclyde, UW Madison, and the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. This project’s goal is to trace how computer-aided analysis of texts can help us track the emergence of linguistic and genre forms in the Early Modern period of the English language.</p><p>In the first iteration of TextLab, students used tools developed by members of the Visualizing English Print project and others to investigate Shakespeare’s language. They were immediately capable of analyzing Shakespeare, making genuine discoveries about his texts. For example, it is unexpected that she will be an especially important word in <em>The Two Gentlemen of Verona</em>, but as Jessica Wagstaff, a student enrolled in the course, points out that “language in <em>The Two Gentlemen of Verona</em> focuses heavily on the discourse of women as object[s] of attainment”, adding that the feminine pronoun she is far more likely to appear in <em>The Two Gentlemen of Verona</em>, but only as the object of the male characters: women in this play are discussed but are not playing an active role. And Jamie-Leigh Green, another student, discovers that “love” rarely appears in <em>The Tempest</em>, despite it being categorized as a “romance” – only to discover that Shakespeare’s late plays are only loosely connected by this generic division – which definitely does not correlate to our modern conception of “romance”.</p><p>Naturally, the next step is to enter the larger world of early Anglophone print: the period itself is host to types of linguistic variation that span the rise of several major generic forms, Atlantic exploration and colonization, and orthographic standardization. EEBO is poised to become the leading depository of searchable Early Modern records. One of the driving forces behind Visualizing English Print is that through the digital analysis of non-canonical texts, larger patterns of linguistic practice can be identified and explored.</p><p>In this presentation we outline the structure of Textlab and suggest ways that the EEBO-TCP initative can be implemented into our existing structure, as well as possibilities for further research. We also suggest ways that English Studies and Computer Science students can be involved in large-scale digital humanities projects such as the Visualizing English Print. This presentation will be suitable for anyone interested in how such digital text analysis software programmes can be integrated into teaching about language and literature, as well as how major international research projects can be integrated into teaching (and <em>vice versa</em>).</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:3a7c3b8f-cdac-4bdd-8b6c-33caa6f041792022-03-26T14:01:50ZEEBO-TCP as a tool for integrating teaching and researchConference itemhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_5794uuid:3a7c3b8f-cdac-4bdd-8b6c-33caa6f04179Oxford University Research Archive - Valet2012Froehlich, H<p>The availability of TCP-EEBO texts enables research-based teaching, and indeed research-discoveries by undergraduates. Textlab, a course which is part of the Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) initiative at The University of Strathclyde, integrates students from all levels, and seeks to foster collaboration between students and faculty from a variety of disciplines and promote research-led teaching on Early Modern literature. Students work in teams, testing newly developed software programmes to identify specific linguistic features of literary texts. Textlab is related to the international “Visualizing English Print from 1470-1800” project (funded by the Mellon Foundation), which involves collaboration between The University of Strathclyde, UW Madison, and the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. This project’s goal is to trace how computer-aided analysis of texts can help us track the emergence of linguistic and genre forms in the Early Modern period of the English language.</p><p>In the first iteration of TextLab, students used tools developed by members of the Visualizing English Print project and others to investigate Shakespeare’s language. They were immediately capable of analyzing Shakespeare, making genuine discoveries about his texts. For example, it is unexpected that she will be an especially important word in <em>The Two Gentlemen of Verona</em>, but as Jessica Wagstaff, a student enrolled in the course, points out that “language in <em>The Two Gentlemen of Verona</em> focuses heavily on the discourse of women as object[s] of attainment”, adding that the feminine pronoun she is far more likely to appear in <em>The Two Gentlemen of Verona</em>, but only as the object of the male characters: women in this play are discussed but are not playing an active role. And Jamie-Leigh Green, another student, discovers that “love” rarely appears in <em>The Tempest</em>, despite it being categorized as a “romance” – only to discover that Shakespeare’s late plays are only loosely connected by this generic division – which definitely does not correlate to our modern conception of “romance”.</p><p>Naturally, the next step is to enter the larger world of early Anglophone print: the period itself is host to types of linguistic variation that span the rise of several major generic forms, Atlantic exploration and colonization, and orthographic standardization. EEBO is poised to become the leading depository of searchable Early Modern records. One of the driving forces behind Visualizing English Print is that through the digital analysis of non-canonical texts, larger patterns of linguistic practice can be identified and explored.</p><p>In this presentation we outline the structure of Textlab and suggest ways that the EEBO-TCP initative can be implemented into our existing structure, as well as possibilities for further research. We also suggest ways that English Studies and Computer Science students can be involved in large-scale digital humanities projects such as the Visualizing English Print. This presentation will be suitable for anyone interested in how such digital text analysis software programmes can be integrated into teaching about language and literature, as well as how major international research projects can be integrated into teaching (and <em>vice versa</em>).</p> |
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