On Annotation

  • Annotations should answer two kinds of questions: first, questions which readers ask themselves while reading a text; second, questions which readers do not ask themselves while reading a text but which, after reading the annotation, they feel they should have asked.

    Burkhard Niederhoff, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
     
 
 

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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