On Annotation

  • Good readers should be curious. Good writers certainly have been, and I think the best writers seek to develop the curiosity of the best readers. But there are so many good writers, and only so much time. And we all benefit from specialization, from the human ability to spread the load of effort and expertise. Annotated editions allow good readers to satisfy their curiosity without consuming all their time—and to discover, in gaps in the annotation, where the knowledge or curiosity of the annotators has not been enough, and where they can contribute something new.

    Brian Boyd, University of Auckland
     
 
 

Posts by T-Stoesser

 
  • TEASys in the Digital English handbook

    TEASys in the Digital English handbook

    A contribution on classroom activities based on TEASys with regard to Shakespeare’s Sonnet 43 is now included in the Digital English handbook, an evolving, open-access handbook aimed at university teachers […]

     

  • An article on writing explanatory notes

    Recently the blog for The New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson ran an article on “Writing explanatory notes” by Richard Dury.  He offers Lesley Graham’s […]

     
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  • The TEASys style guide

    This homepage now includes the TEASys style guide, a continually updated style sheet for creating annotations with TEASys. Its aim is to help students and scholars alike in systematizing the […]

     
  • In focus: the Annotated Web Edition Directory

    In focus: the Annotated Web Edition Directory

    Part of our research in annotation and the development of TEASys is to survey the practice of digital annotation as it is carried out by the many different literary editions […]

     
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  • Literary Annotation & Whipping Boys

     

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