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Tag: close reading

  • Close Reading – Powell Diary XML Markup

    At first, the Powell Diary was not a very meaningful text to me. I felt distanced from the content and did not quite fully understand what was going on or what the significance was. However, through the process of constantly marking the text up, at first in the google doc and eventually in Oxygen, I…

  • Closer than Just Regular Reading

    When it comes to reading just any material, close reading isn’t the first thing that jumps into your head.  Reading a body of work usually consists of starting at the top of the page and reading the at least most of the words.  Close Reading is a completely different story. Using Oxygen to make a…

  • Categorize the data

    Close reading in digital humanity is a little bit different from the traditional reading process. From my own experience, it is a process of categorizing rather than information gathering. Elena Pierazzo values this categorizing process a lot in her report. “For print the choice of which features to include in the transcription is limited largely…