• • Instructions
    1. Select your text(s)
       • This folder contains some of our reading as plain text files (txt), which are easier to upload into Voyant.
    2. Upload it/them to Voyant
       • If you are looking at more than one text, you may want to view them separately before combining them
    3. Experiment with the program. Look at different views and options.
    4. Write 500-1000 words analyzing what you noticed
       • For example, did anything surprise you or meet your expectations?
       • Were there visualizations that made sense or didn't
    5. Important: Most of all, try to tie your analysis to one or more of the concepts we have covered so far
       • At this point in the semester, this would mainly be Stevens, but the Digitial Humanities readings could also be useful for this
    6. Also Important: In your mini-paper, include a link to your visualization as well as an image.

• Compare a combination of Hurston, Baldwin, Hughes, and/or DuBois using Voyant. What similarities or differences stand out to you? What is your analysis (aka argument, hypothesis, thesis) about this?
  • The posts from CultureFront may be useful for such an approach
• Compare different versions of Cinderella
• Examine a text referenced in Stevens, such as Longinus. What do you notice about its diction, etc?
• Run all of Macbeth through Voyant. See if you can tie your analysis to what you plan to look at in Essay 1
• Run some or all of the character Lady Macbeth's soliloquies through Voyant. Do you notice any changes or patterns?
• Compare a speech by Macbeth with one by Lady Macbeth
• Focus on just one passage from Macbeth.
• Compare Macbeth to trends in all of Shakespeare plays or just 1-2 others

If you cannot see your comments on Mini-Paper 1, let me know by Tuesday. Everyone who turned in a Mini-Paper last week did fine. This assignment is also ungraded and meant to prepare for Essay 1. I am going to fiddle with DropBox to see if I can make sure the comment shows up for you (it is just one comment this time, but there will be more for Essay 1).

More details will be posted on Essay 1, but basically, you are going to analyze a text from the class, using a concept, theory and/or framework we have covered so far. Part of these first three written assignments involves you sorting through your own inclinations before we address 20th and 21st-century theories.

Stay safe this weekend
PS: Here are some rough guides to Voyant. These are screencasts without sound and pretty quickly edited.