Course Materials

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"Course Materials" contains the syllabus, assignment instructions, in-class discussion prompts, and teaching notes for a Digital Critical Edition of Lady Audley's Secret (1862) in Dr. Mary Bowden's Spring 2019 section of L204: Introduction to Fiction. Through this assignment, students annotated a digital copy of the novel, identified the novel's major themes and formal features, located moments for further study through network analysis, and wrote a paper on their annotation practices. The activity was designed by Dr. Bowden in collaboration with Mary Borgo Ton, the Digital Pedagogy Specialist for the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities (IDAH), with assistance from Daniel Story, the Digital Methods Specialist for IDAH. This collection also contains the Python script that we used to transform a Google Doc into a spreadsheet in preparation for a network analysis of the novel's main themes.

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    Class Activities Day 9: Wrapping up the Digital Critical Edition Assignment
    (2019-01) Bowden, Mary
    These are the teaching notes and slide deck for Day 9. These materials guided students through a group discussion in preparation for their reflective paper.
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    Class Activities Day 7: Lady Audley's Secret, sympathy, and class
    (2019-01) Bowden, Mary
    These are the teaching notes and slide deck for Day 7. These materials guided students through discussion of gender, class, and power in Lady Audley's Secret.
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    Class Activities Day 6: Lady Audley's Secret, Madness, Gender, and Close Reading
    (2019-01) Bowden, Mary
    These are the teaching notes and slide deck for Day 6. These materials guided students through a discussion of madness in the novel before turning to an annotation activity.
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    Class Activities Day 3: Lady Audley's Secret and Close Reading
    (2019-01) Bowden, Mary
    These are the teaching notes and slide deck for Day 2. These materials guided students through an interpretation of a passage in Lady Audley's Secret.
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    Class Activities Day 2: Lady Audley's Secret, Plot Structure, and Close Reading
    (2019-01) Bowden, Mary
    These are the teaching notes and slide deck for Day 2. These materials describe the structure of a plot and guide students through an analysis of a passage from Lady Audley's Secret.
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    Class Activities Day 1: Victorian Sensation Fiction and Themes
    (2019-01) Bowden, Mary
    These are the teaching notes and slide deck for Day 1. These materials introduced Victorian literature, sensation fiction, and literary themes.
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    Digital Critical Edition Assignment Instructions
    (2019-01) Bowden, Mary
    In this assignment, students chose a theme to look for as they read Lady Audley's Secret and annotated a digital copy of the novel via Google docs. Students then wrote a reflection to describe their annotation practices, describe the patterns that they noticed, and analyze their findings.
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    L204: Introduction to Fiction Syllabus
    (2019-01) Bowden, Mary
    This is the syllabus for Dr. Mary Bowden's Spring 2019 section of L204: Introduction to Fiction.
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    Class Activities Day 8: Digital Tools for Revision and Reflection
    (2019-01) Bowden, Mary; Borgo Ton, Mary; Story, Daniel
    These are the teaching notes and slide deck for Day 8. These materials described digital tools for revision and reflection. In preparation for class, Daniel Story downloaded the copy of Lady Audley's Secret that students had been annotating and ran a Python script to generate a spreadsheet of student annotations and their themes. After a discussion of madness at the beginning of class, Mary Borgo Ton led a data cleaning and network analysis activity that asked students to identify passages that overlapped thematically.
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    Guide: Analyzing themes with network analysis
    (2019-01) Story, Daniel
    This is the Python script that we used to transform annotations in Google Docs into a spreadsheet in preparation for network analysis on Day 8 of the Digital Critical Edition Assignment. The Python script is a version of Beautiful Soup. The readme file contains instructions on how to structure a Google doc version of a novel so that it can be used with the Python script. In order to use the code, you must have Python installed on your computer.