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- This page is a companion to the guest lecture for WRIT2100.
- Please do bring a laptop! If you have one, bring your own. If you do not have one, please feel free to check one out at the Olin circulation desk. Having a laptop will allow you to participate in the exercises and get the most out of classthis exploration.
- Please bring samples of text you want to explore. These can be in several formats: plain text, Microsoft Word Document, PDF and URLs to online sources. We will be loading them into various tools; hopefully you will see interesting results. I will encourage sharing.
- No special software will be needed. All exercises will be done through a Web browser, without any special plugins.
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- Sample texts for upload are below, courtesy of Project Gutenberg. Download plain text version to your local machine for upload into the Voyant interface
. For the Term of his Natural Life
Cooper, James Fenimore, The Last of the Mohicans
.Gibbons, Helen Davenport, 1883-1960. The Red Rugs of Tarsus, A Woman's Record of the Armenian Massacre of 1909
Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566. A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
- Sample PDFs
- Supreme Court of the United States. Website with opinions, dissents, etc.
- Jones, Adam. 2006. Except of Chapter 1 from Genocide: a comprehensive introduction. London: Routledge.
- Sample URLS: copy and paste into the Voyant upload browser window to get started.
Instructions to major John Sullivan. Washington, George, 1732-1799. The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources. Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
- Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code - http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92preface.html
- Sample Visualization
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