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Month: March 2023

Exploring women’s texts with the Women Writers Online: Scrabble Discovery Interface

Exploring women’s texts with the Women Writers Online: Scrabble Discovery Interface

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Here’s another way to explore the WWO collection during Women’s History Month: on April Fools Day, 2017 we released the Women Writers Online Scrabble Discovery Interface, an exciting new tool that enhances the texts in Women Writers Online by allowing users to discover the Scrabble® scores for the words in each text. Using cutting-edge XML technologies, this interface excludes non-playable words such as proper nouns, words in dialect, and non-English words. For example, the highest scoring single word in WWO…

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Using Encoding to Teach Textual Analysis II – Bigger and Badder

Using Encoding to Teach Textual Analysis II – Bigger and Badder

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By Jessica Kane, University of Michigan This collaboration was part of the WWP’s Teaching Partners program; for more information, see the digital edition created by the students. Introductory literature courses typically seek to help students understand why stories matter, as well as introduce them to some of the tools we use for textual analysis. Close reading, one of the foundational tools for analysis, requires careful attention to a text’s language, patterns, and gaps – something students often find challenging. A previous course’s success encoding…

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