Month: November 2016
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Shoshanna Paperny: Notes Reflection
When reading, a text as foreign as Shakespearean plays, many tactics must be employed in order to understand not only the surface, but deeper meaning. In play writes and film involving Shakespeare’s text and language there is often alternative meanings than what originally meets the eye. Within the text lies various forms of symbolism, puns,…
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Anthony Hawboldt: Argument Reflection
Confession: I’m not an English Major. I’m an Anthropologist and Archaeologist by training. When it comes to creating an argument for a paper, I tend to use these disciplines to help me stay organized. Within the Anthropology and Archaeology department, An(th)arky has become our created word for any thing that blends the two, so that…
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Anthony Hawboldt: Argument Reflection
Confession: I’m not an English Major. I’m an Anthropologist and Archaeologist by training. When it comes to creating an argument for a paper, I tend to use these disciplines to help me stay organized. Within the Anthropology and Archaeology department, An(th)arky has become our created word for any thing that blends the two, so that…
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Kaitlin Osterlund: Notes Reflection
With a play-text, I find that I am much more active in my inquiry and annotation than for a film. I also find that annotation for a play-text is more of a physical process for remembering and recalling information. I like to underline and circle lots of phrases and words when I am reading in…
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Samuel Martyn: Notes Reflection
My notes are awful. They are sparse and happen relatively infrequently. Particularly for reading a play or watching film. They are nondescript for the most part. If anyone aside from me was to look at my notes, they would not gain much, if anything at all. Most of my annotation when it comes to going…
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Carly Splett: Argument Reflection
I begin by carefully examining the essay’s criteria, in order to determine exactly what will be required. This examination is then broken down into an outline, which will be referenced repeatedly throughout the composition of my essay. After determining the precise subject matter for my assignment, I begin my research with general sources, and/or the…
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Pavneet Pahwa: Notes Reflection
Shakespeare is seen as a challenge by most English students all over the world. His language is flowery and pleasant to hear, but also rather daunting to try and understand. Archaic vocabulary, historical context, bizarre sentence structure, and an abundance of literary devices further contribute to a much denser layer of complexity in his work.…
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Mirabelle Harris-Eze: Notes Reflection
“We all do ‘do, re, mi,’ but you have got to find the other notes yourself.” ~ Louis Armstrong Introduction While most notes include summaries and interpretation of data, the way these occur on the page differ from person to person. My marketing textbook describes analysis as the conversion of data into insight, and this analysis…
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Notes Reflection- Arshpreet Dhariwal
Annotating while reading a play-text has become second nature thanks to all the practice high school Shakespeare gave me, but making notes while watching a movie is a new concept that I have recently started doing. My hand written notes are anything but neat and possibly not legible to a person other then me who reads…
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Christian Tiberi: Notes reflection
I will admit that note-taking has always been a particular pain for me. My handwriting is usually illegible chicken scratch, which makes annotating texts difficult as I cannot fit my writing into the small space. Due to the size of my handwriting and the size of the margins (depending on the text), I am forced to…