Friday, 18 November 2011

Week Eight

We met today to discuss how to make our findings measurable. We have decided to look for:
  • Abbreviations
  • Contractions
  • Colloquialisms
  • Archaisms
  • The tone
  • Any other interesting features that stand out and are comparable
To compare our pieces we will make comparisons between our own decade and a recent copy (from 2 weeks ago) of Redbrick to see how they differ. The measurable factors such as the number of abbreviations, contractions, colloquialisms and archaisms could be represented by bar graphs or pie charts to show changes.

We are meeting next Friday at 10 to compare our findings so we can collate them and put them in the PowerPoint. Then we will attend the meeting at 12.

Monday, 14 November 2011

Alison's help

Alison also very kindly sent me the link to this document, which may help us with our project:

http://icame.uib.no/ij26/westin_geisler.pdf