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In reply to: Tonya-Marie Howe wrote a new post, 200 Years & “It’s Still Alive” (Take 2), on the site EN571: Literature & Technology (Illustration by Henning Wagenbreth, The New Yorker) Franco Moretti begins […] View
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In reply to: Tonya-Marie Howe wrote a new post, Day Four – Prompt #4: An Idea for Mapping a Text or a Topic, on the site EN571: Literature & Technology In the brief introduction of the chapter, it submits to the audience a s […] View
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In reply to: Tonya-Marie Howe wrote a new post, Visualizing Words: Who said What?, on the site EN571: Literature & Technology The hardest part of using graphs is figuring out how the data correlates and whether it is effective […] View
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In reply to: Tonya-Marie Howe wrote a new post, Lost in Visualization, on the site EN571: Literature & Technology “I know what to do when I see words on page; when I look at this graph, I don’t know what to do, I don’t know […] View
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I think this proposal gives a good idea of what your topic will be, however, it is very broad and should be narrowed down since I think whoever reads your research will be confused as to what exactly you will be questioning and what your focus is on, so I would suggest you focus more on what is it that you want to research. Also, you said that this will be a study on students, so what students were you considering, high school level, university level? Also, how will you have access to surveying them for your research? I think those are stuff you should consider before finalizing the research proposal. You have a great idea but you just need to narrow down on your topic and make sure that there are no obstacles present in this research.
I’d like to first say that I find your understanding and knowledge of mapping to be visually stimulating which I can appreciate to a level. As you’ve written here, the reader mentally drawn those maps (or “graphs”) to link between characters, actions, author(s), and story to the novel; allowing “the reader to imagine the novel and its history…” I’d like to think that this is one of your strongest components and it might do you will to expand or focus on these descriptions when developing your proposal and research among your students.
Having said that, I agree with some of the previous comments (too broad and needs more focus). I’d like to suggest, however, that it might help to focus on one (no more than two) of the digital tools as you’ve briefly mentioned around four of them in your proposal; this may help with creating more focus into your research as well. Otherwise, it seems you are on your way to an interesting proposal and I wish you good luck.