Monthly Archives: January 2012

Scholarly Primitives

According to John Unsworth, “Illustrating” is a scholarly primitive that is used to describe humanities. Along with other adjectives, he explains how each aspect of humanities is involved with atleast one but not limited to either: discovering, annotating, comparing, referring, sampling, illustrating, … Continue reading

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twitter

When doing research twitter could be a very useful tool. It helps you connect to people you may normally have not been able to get in contact with. Many writers and professors who would extremely educated in the thing you are researching … Continue reading

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Humanities Digital Discriptions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanities Discriptions of humanities.

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Yet Another Blogging Assignment

You’ve brainstormed about potential uses of Twitter and read the Guide to Using Twitter for University Research, Teaching and Impact Activities. Write a post of about 200 words in which you evaluate how useful the pdf is for understanding the … Continue reading

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Twitter User Guide Links

LSE Website pdf of Using Twitter in University Research

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Next Blog Assignment

For your first “homework” blogging assignment, please read Unsworth’s Digital Primitives article and write a blog post of at least 200 words explaining one of the seven “primitives” he identifies, including an example from some humanities discipline. Please do this … Continue reading

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Established Blogs and New Blogs

Most of the blogs we’ve been looking at have been established for a long time. If you look at Maud Newton’s blog, for instance, you’ll see that her archives go back to 2002. But new blogs turn up all the … Continue reading

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In class assignment

The following link leads to an academic blog about academic blogging by Evans and Cebula. It has four comments and was updated earlier this month, even though it was originally started in November. Evans and Cebula on Academic Blogging  

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bloggin test

After walking (well electroniclly doing so) i found myself at “Northwest History“  blogg, or what I thought was a  post by a historical scholar.  As you wonder there you will notice that it was more personal in nature, had an interesting comic … Continue reading

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Exploring Blogs

http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/   This blog has many posts posted by a single anonymous author. It has posts not too frequently,about every week or so and most posts have little or no comments. Most posts are long an professional

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