I found transcribing these pieces of work to be a very fascinating process. I have never completed a project like this before. I think that this project has given us an incredible opportunity. We have been given the chance to create digital artifacts from real journal entries. I found this project to be very special and meaningful. I really enjoyed reading the journal entries and being able to read them felt very personal. I imagined how long ago these were written and by who. There is something very personal about interpreting someone’s journal entries, especially for the first time. There were many deep emotions that were touched on in the texts which made me feel a connection to the work.
It was great to learn about these people of the Moravian church through their writing. From their writings, they seem to be very religious. It is unbelievable to think about the circumstances under which these entries were written and how different people’s lives are today. Reading these texts and transcribing them was a very intriguing process. It was quite difficult, yet allowed me to appreciate what I was doing even moreso. There were many words I was unable to read due to illegible handwriting and misspellings. Many of the words might’ve been spelled differently during this time period, but they also could’ve been due to human error. I completed the transcriptions through trying to decode words in my mind to the best of my ability. My group members and I often compared different words with each other to try to fully figure them out. It was helpful to get other perspectives on words from my group members. When I finally figured out a word which I was confused about, it was the most satisfying feeling. Completing these transcriptions almost felt as if I was completing a jigsaw puzzle.
Original: http://moravian.bucknell.edu/memoirs/Samuel-Tippet/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13MJaRyAwmMfOANP_Th0uo7URnXYOoho1psEbMa9MMOc/edit
My works (4,9,11,12):
http://moravian.bucknell.edu/scripto/?scripto_action=transcribe&scripto_doc_id=300045&scripto_doc_page_id=4000754
http://moravian.bucknell.edu/scripto/?scripto_action=transcribe&scripto_doc_id=300045&scripto_doc_page_id=4000759
http://moravian.bucknell.edu/scripto/?scripto_action=transcribe&scripto_doc_id=300045&scripto_doc_page_id=4000761
http://moravian.bucknell.edu/scripto/?scripto_action=transcribe&scripto_doc_id=300045&scripto_doc_page_id=4000762
Allison Butler is a sophomore at Bucknell University. She is from New York. She likes fashion and tennis.
