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ASSIGNMENT<\/strong><\/td>GRADE<\/strong><\/td>DUE DATE<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Questions<\/td>10%<\/td>Due by 12 noon on the day of class<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Participation<\/td>10%<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
Taxonomy of Digital Scholarship<\/td>5%<\/td>Due by 12 noon on the day of class<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Reviews<\/td>30%<\/td>Due by 11:59 PM on the Sunday after the class in which the example is discussed<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Essay<\/td>45%<\/td>Proposal due by October 18<\/em>
Draft for review due by November 28<\/em>
Final submission due by 11:59 PM on December 12<\/em><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
  1. Questions<\/strong> (10%) – Due by 12 noon on the day of class<\/em>
    1. Each week before class you will email me three substantive questions or points for discussion.
      1. This assignment aims to help ensure you process the readings, and spend some time thinking about them rather than just reading and taking notes. It is also intended to encourage you to think about how the readings relate to one another<\/li>
      2. Your questions can focus on themes and issues raised in specific readings for that week, on the relationship of the readings, on how the readings can synthesized, or on the relationship of the readings to topics covered in previous weeks. Questions should not be merely factual. Try to include at least one question relating the readings to each other.<\/li>
      3. Keep your questions short and do not spend too much time polishing the writing \u2013 this assignment will be graded pass\/fail, so as long as you submit questions, you will pass.<\/li><\/ol><\/li><\/ol><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
        1. Participation<\/strong> (10%)
          1. Participation in class discussion is key to your learning in a seminar, and to the success of the class. Listening to the perspective of others, and offering your perspective and considering how others respond to it, offers a greater understanding historical sources, questions and interpretations than any single point of view. Participation means respectfully and thoughtfully engaging with others in the class; ad hominem <\/em>attacks will not be tolerated.<\/li><\/ol><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
            1. Taxonomy of Digital Scholarship<\/strong> (5%) \u2013 Due by 12 noon on the day of class<\/em>
              1. Contribute to a taxonomy of forms of digital scholarship
                1. For one class<\/em> you will contribute a 100-250-word definition of the features of the form of digital scholarship being discussed that week. [Class Taxonomy<\/a>].<\/li>
                2. You will briefly explain your definition in class, describing the key elements and the areas of debate, as well as how the form of scholarship relates to those already in the taxonomy.<\/li>
                3. This assignment aims to focus your attention on the terms used to describe digital scholarship and to address the tendency to treat those terms as having a self-evident or uncomplicated meaning<\/li><\/ol><\/li><\/ol><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
                  1. Reviews<\/strong> (30%) \u2013 Due no later than 11:59 PM on the Sunday after the class in which the example is discussed<\/em>
                    1. For each class on a form of digital scholarship (weeks 4-13), you will be assigned one example to analyze in terms of how and to what extent it uses the features of that form of scholarship, and how it relates to the print forms of the book and the journal. The second half of each class will focus on discussing examples of that form of digital scholarship; you should be prepared to discuss your analysis of the example assigned to you.
                      1. Assigned Examples<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/li>
                      2. After three<\/em> classes of your choosing you will write a 500-word review of your assigned example that offers a brief analysis of it in relation to the features of the form of digital scholarship and the print book and journal. You are free to choose for which three of the ten classes you submit a review<\/em>. Your written review should reflect your analysis and the class discussion of that example.<\/li><\/ol><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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                        1. Essay<\/strong> (45%)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
                          • Proposal due by October 18<\/em><\/li>
                          • Draft for review due by November 28.<\/em><\/li>
                          • Final submission due by 11:59 PM on December 12<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
                            1. Choose one of these options, or propose an alternative<\/em>
                              1. A 15-page essay analyzing one form of digital scholarship: what are its features, how has it been used, how does it relate to print scholarship? To what extent does it represent an alternative or a complement to print scholarship? You must include any additional readings listed on the form you analyze and several examples not discussed in class.<\/li>
                              2. A 15-page essay analyzing the development of digital scholarship over time. This question is effectively asking you to reorganize the course, to consider the forms of digital scholarship that developed in the 1990s and early 2000s together, and then those that developed subsequently. What features of the early versions of each form of digital scholarship are highlighted when they are examined in relation to those developed at the same time than when they are examined in relation to subsequent versions of the same form, as the organization of the class highlighted? What does this perspective reveal about the nature of digital scholarship?<\/li>
                              3. A 15-page essay overview of the nature of digital scholarship, considering the relationships between different forms, what they have in common, how they differ. This question is asking you to look across the course and develop themes that make connections between forms of digital scholarship not<\/em> present a series of separate discussions of different forms of digital scholarship<\/li>
                              4. A 15-page essay responding to the question raised this year by James Sweet, the president of the American Historical Association:
                                1. \u201cAs we articulate disciplinary standards to administrators and others, should the single-authored monograph (or its digital equivalents) continue to be the standard, or should we consider smaller chunks of original knowledge, distributed by tweet, blog, or online media outlet, to be cumulative equivalents to the book? Or are these worthy complements?\u201d (<\/em>Diffusion as Dilution? History and the Book.\u201d Perspectives on History<\/em>. February 2022)<\/li><\/ol><\/li>
                                2. A prototype of a form of digital scholarship for your own research<\/li>
                                3. An alternative assignment that you propose \u2013 I am happy for you to develop an assignment that is useful to your academic and intellectual progress<\/em><\/li><\/ol><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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