As I started to mark up my transcription, I started to really put together how everything was interconnected. At first I was simply reading a memoir and it felt like anything else I would read but marking up the transcription and highlighting people, places, and things like emotions made my connection with the transcription deeper. When reading something casually, it’s easy to miss emotions, and especially when reading something personal like a memoir these emotions are very important. Emotions allow us to see what the writer was going through and can really put us in the place where he/she was when writing the memoir. When really looking at the places, it’s really interesting to see where the people in these memoirs lived and traveled to. We can see these areas today especially places like London, but can only imagine what it would be like for them at that time. Lastly, highlighting each person and their connection to John Willey allowed us to see how many people John had affected through his life and work. These markups have helped me understand these transcriptions on a deeper level and connect to them.
Our memoir in particular had three people working on it at the same time. This meant in order for us to have consistent mark ups we needed to collaborate and decide what was worthy and what was not. One of the main challenges that I think was prominent in other memoirs as well was terms like Jesus, Jesus Christ, Christ, Savior, Saviour, and Lord. Our group decided to make Jesus the person’s name, and the rest all role names. This is seen in one of the screenshots below where I have “Lord” marked up as a role name. In some cases it was harder for my group to come up with what to do about emotions. We decided that including emotions that was not felt by a particular person would not be marked up. For example, in the pictures below we can see I marked up emotions like dread and guilt, because that is what John Willey was feeling. I agree with Elena Pierazzo when she talks about how uploading a document on the web requires much more and different things compared to a published document. This is because editors need to do much more like markups and what exactly they need to include and exclude. I also agree with her that there is so much more that one can do with a computer compared to a published document. Coding allows us to mark emotions, places, people, dates, and much more up in order to organize information that would not be available on the computer. 
Jacob Hubbard is a sophomore at Bucknell University, and is from San Francisco, CA.
