Feminist Criticism

Feminist Criticism is a research method, a type of textual research, that literary critics use to interpret texts a genre of discourse employed by literary critics used to share the results of their interpretive efforts. Key Terms: Dialectic; Hermeneutics; Semiotics; Text & Intertextuality; Tone Feminist theory can be traced to the theories of Simone de ...

Critical Disability Studies

Critical Disability Studies is Critical disability studies have emerged in the early decades of the 21st century.  This can be largely attributed to a developing cultural awareness of socially constructed perceptions of what society deems “normal”, or otherwise. Dan Goodley is a key figure in this area, particularly in Disability Studies: An Introduction (2010). CDS examines ...

Rhetorical Analysis

Rhetorical Analysis refers to Rhetorical Analysis is a vital workplace, academic, and personal competency–a way of producing rhetorical knowledge In January of 2020, the COVID-19 virus swept across the world, killing people, disrupting financial markets, and transforming the lives of billions of people. It was, by all accounts an unusual rhetorical situation, a pandemic that ...

Textual Research Methods

Synonymous Terms Textual research methods is also known as scholarship. Other synonyms include Related Concepts: Dialectic; Hermeneutics; Semiotics; Text & Intertextuality What are textual research methods? Textual research methods refers to the methods scholars use to interpret texts, to assess knowledge claims, and to develop new knowledge. Any time you are interpreting, learning from, describing, ...

Rhetorical Analysis–Image

How do images convey a message? How should students and scholars alike evaluate the effectiveness of a visual text? As a composer and analyzer of texts, it is important to keep in mind that authors often choose to use visual images to convey ideas. Whether composing or analyzing an image, consider how each of these ...

Corpus linguistics fuels AI innovation: Teams of computational linguists, including those at OpenAI, delve into the vast expanse of the internet, amassing an extensive corpus to predict textual patterns. Yet, when classic lines, like T.S. Eliot's 'I measure my life in coffee spoons' from 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,' are absorbed without proper acknowledgment, pressing ethical questions emerge. This illustration captures that very sentiment, as Eliot's iconic line spirals into the corpus vortex.

Corpus Linguistic Analysis – A Bird’s Eye View of Writing

Related Concepts: Research Methodology; Rhetorical Analysis; Textual Research Methods What is Corpus Linguistics Analysis? How we (usually) read and write If you are like most people in the United States, you read and write one phrase, sentence, and paragraph at a time. Then, you consider all the words, sentences, and paragraphs of a full individual ...

Literary Criticism

What is Literary Criticism? Literary Criticism is Key Terms: Archive, Canon; Dialectic; Hermeneutics; Semiotics; Text & Intertextuality; Tone; rhetoric, intersubjectivity, modernism, postmodernism. *Alternative Article Title(s): Critical Theory General Strategies for Engaging in Literary Criticism Engage in Rhetorical Analysis The methods for engaging in rhetorical criticism and presenting interpretations are bounded by the values and customs ...

Rhetorical Analysis in the Real World: A Useful Thinking Tool

Rhetorical Analysis in the Real World: A Useful Thinking Tool

As a citizen and a scholar, I use rhetorical analysis to sort out questions about politics and relationships. In everyday life, rhetorical analysis is a valuable tool for understanding and preparing to engage in the world.

I hadn’t thought much about the word “help” until the summer day I strolled along the beach with my boyfriend. A young man on the boardwalk struggled with something—tying a kite maybe? collapsing a stroller?

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Textual Analysis – How to Engage in Textual Analysis

As a reader, a developing writer, and an informed student and citizen, you need to be able to locate, understand, and critically analyze others’ purposes in communicating information. Being able to identify and articulate the meaning of other writers’ arguments and theses enables you to engage in intelligent, meaningful, and critical knowledge exchanges. Ultimately, regardless ...

Search the Library Catalog

Understand how to search for books, journals, government documents, and media that you can access through your college or university library.

You can hunt for information on your topic by consulting the library catalog. In many modern libraries, the bulky file drawers containing 3 x 5-inch cards have been replaced by computer terminals. Regardless of how the information is stored, all library catalogs list books and other materials owned by the library. The other materials might be videos, sound recordings, government documents, journals both print and electronic, and perhaps even some well-chosen web sites and electronic books.