• Enrollment
• Attendance & Grading policy

• Reminder to purchase Franco Moretti's Graphs, Maps, Trees
• Methods for studying online materials
  

• Introduction to working on the Student Work branch of the course site

• Wiki membership (example of invitation to join "workspace")

• The nature of a wiki and "Editor" level user permissions (PBWorks permission levels)

• Basic editing, linking, and uploading procedures:

• Go to the Student Work branch of the course site.

• Log in

• Edit an existing page (for example, edit the "Sandbox" page designed for testing)
• GUI vs. source-code view
• adding a link
• adding an image
• uploading content (images, docs, pdfs, etc.)
• Create a new page
• Through the Pages & Files menu
• By creating a link to still to be created page
• Putting a page in a folder
• Using a template for a page
• Wiki editing help available in sidebar of site
• "Page history" (versioning) feature

• Preview of next class (and next practicum): Class 3

• Instructions for Class Bio assignment (due by next class)

• (disclaimer)

• Process for creating a bio

• Content and tone of the bio

• Questions?

   

• Remembering the "New Criticism" in 20th-Century Literary Studies:
• Encyclopedia Britannica synopsis of "New Criticism" | Michael Delahoyde, brief synopsis of New Criticism
• John Crowe Ransom, "Criticism, Inc." (1937) (read only sections IV and V)
• Cleanth Brooks, "The Heresy of Paraphrase [PDF]," from his Well Wrought Urn (1947)
• Example Poems and Critical Readings:
• Sir Thomas Wyatt, "They Flee From Me" (1557) [commentary by Ian Lancashire]
• John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (1819) [commentary by Cleanth Brooks]
• Archibald MacLeish, "Ars Poetica" (1926) [commentary by various critics]
• Introducing "Distant Reading" in 21st-Century Literary Studies:
• Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees (2005), pp. 1-4
• Jean-Baptiste Michel, Erez Lieberman Aiden, et al., "Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books" (2011) (paywalled; UCSB students have free access from UCSB campus or Library Proxy server) 

Background:

2. Google Ngram Viewer Practicum

• Google Ngram Viewer
• Cheat sheet of parameters that can be set in using the Ngram Viewer
• What did you find? (some screenshots from our class)
• What possible problems are there with this method / technology?  (E.g.)
• Haithi Trust Bookworm
• Bookworm:Movies viewer | Bookworm:Simpsons

• Class 3