Sample Student Work

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"Sample Student Work" contains annotations and written reflections created by students in Dr. Mary Bowden's Spring 2019 section of L204: Introduction to Fiction as part of the Digital Critical Edition of Lady Audley's Secret (1862). 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.

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    Student Themes and Annotations
    (2019-01) Bowden, Mary; Story, Daniel
    This list of themes, annotations, and passages from Lady Audley's Secret was generated using a Python script written by Daniel Story. It was used as part of the network analysis class activity in Day 8 of the Digital Critical Edition Assignment for Mary Bowden's L204: Introduction to Fiction course.
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    Student Reflection: Femininity in ​Lady Audley’s Secret
    (2019-02-15) Heck, Morgan
    Our group as a whole did not employ any one particular method when tracking the theme of femininity throughout the novel; however, we did seem to place more emphasis on and pay special attention to some of the same lines and passages. I, myself, chose to highlight sections that focused largely on the appearances, behaviors, and attitudes of the various female characters introduced throughout the novel in order to draw comparisons between each description. By tracking the theme of femininity in this way, I was able to gain a better understanding of how women were expected to behave in the Victorian era, as well as how men viewed them and how they viewed one another. I do not think I would have necessarily picked up on the findings/patterns I discussed in my analysis had I not been searching for words/lines/passages that related to femininity. The collaborative process allowed me to vocalize my thoughts on certain lines/passages (which were then turned into annotations), which I don’t think I would have gotten to do had this been an individual assignment. The annotations also helped when it came to noticing patterns/ideas throughout the course of the novel. Overall, I was happy with how this assignment was set up because it gave me a good framework for writing my analysis.