This page will provide links to supplementary readings, related topics, and useful avenues of inquiry.
Here is how to login to Hypothes.is, which we will be using for all marginalia and annotations.
- log on to hypothes.is (https://hypothes.is/groups/4A4L2oWp/eng-3015)
- log on to the blog and visit the pdf page
- click on the first item on the list and copy its url to your clipboard
- In another tab, open https://via.hypothes.is/ and paste in the link of the page you want to annotate. That opens hypothesis.
- Click on the cursor icon to make the full sidebar appear. Or click on a word that you want to annotate.
Please see the archive of notes page for a fuller discussion of the sorts of comments we will be posting.
I recommend you read on paper and will have printable or hard copies available for everything I assign. Here are some recent articles discussing the fact that, while people reading on screens are able to comprehend at similar levels to those reading on paper, metacognition, the sort of deeper-level thinking required for literary analysis, might be compromised. That said, I read these articles on a computer!
As we will discuss in class, Scots is a distinct language (or dialect, depending on your definition and politics) with vocabulary, pronunciations, and grammatical constructions that are different from English. This dictionary is pretty comprehensive: http://www.dsl.ac.uk/