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The process of marking up my transcription has affected my understanding of the text. Throughout this process, I have read my text (Samuel Tippet) many different times in many different ways\forms. The original reading was reading it online through the original document which was a bit difficult to decipher. Next, I read while transcribing what the document had said. After this, I had to proofread what I had transcribed as well as my other group members to make sure it had made sense with no errors. This is when I read the whole story and it all came together. Next, with creating the timeline it pointed out the “landmark” events in Samuel Tippet’s life such as where he was born, marriage, and more. Tagging things such as a person, place, and emotion pointed out the most important people to my group members and I. It pointed out what people were mentioned the most, the most popular places as well as what emotions he was feeling throughout his memoir which were mostly negative unfortunately. He was a sad man that turned to God in order to help him throughout his life journey.

Marking up my transcription has enhanced my understanding of the text because of rereading it several times. Each time, my group members and I had a different task such as creating a timeline, tagging, or actually publishing it. This means that we were noticing different things each time we were reading it. Most importantly, after every task, we proofread before submitting. I can confidently say I have a full understanding of my memoir after these steps.

Collaborating as an editorial board with my peers has changed my understanding of how edited texts are produced. Obviously, I knew that a lot of work had to be put in in order to produce a text. However, I did not realize how much work editors actually put in until experiencing it myself. My group and I did not even write this piece but marked it up and transcribed. Editing it was challenging because there were discrepancies over what some of the words were. We also had to make sure that names, places, and other important words were all capitalized, spelled the right way and had correct correlating tags before publishing. I now understand how important editing is to the publishing industry. It is also important to double check, reread and have another set of eyes when looking at a text. We resolved disputes over markup decisions by creating a google doc on certain words. For example, we decided to tag Jesus, Christ, and Jesus Christ. We decided not to tag Saviour or Lord. By creating rules, it helped us keep it standard throughout the text. I now commend all editors and give them a lot of props.

Along with this blog post, I uploaded two screenshots of the google doc I attached. One screenshot shows when\when not to capitalize Lord and Jesus. The other is a screenshot using a person’s name.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15NewmsMvzz4pelwjiqQN9_ovH49tk1KW5Qk5dN5QiBo/edit

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Blog #3 Contextual Research

Chronology of events matters when we are representing history especially through a timeline. Chronology refers to the arrangement of events or dates in the order of their occurrence. It is a very efficient and effective way of organizing events, especially on a timeline. It matters because it shows how history changed over time and is an easy way to analyze past events, compare them with newer events, and infer what may happen in the future. We can represent history on a time line through small descriptions with the date describing an event as well as some sort of media to help the reader visualize the event. Chronology can mean something to different to everyone. For example, chronology for Christians was vital in celebrating many religious holidays such as when to celebrate Easter and knowing that the Apocalypse was nigh.

According to “Cartographies of Time”, timelines have not always been a part of studying history. In fact, there is a history itself in studying timelines. Many people forget that we have not always had timelines as a tool to represent history. In the process of compiling media for my entry (Samuel Tippet) for the Moravian Lives Timeline, I have come to terms with the complex relationship between ideas and modes of representation. Both through words and media such as photographs, it has represented and “clarified” historical events. The description describing what has happened while the photograph can give more insight to where it happened, what it looked like, the time period and much more. “Traditional chronographic forms performed both rote historical work and heavy conceptual lifting. They assembled, selected, and organized diverse bits of historical information in the form of dated list. And the chronologies of a given period may tell us as much about its visions of past and future as do its historical narratives.” (Grafton  11) In the first timelines assembled, there were a list of dates. However, many of these dates were missing the events that coincided with them.

A line or timeline tells more than chronology. It tells a story. Since the first timelines were created, a lot of pieces were missing.  Transcribing artifacts as we have been doing in class can help add more information and piece together certain events in history. A ‘line’ has appeared everywhere. Its presence is everywhere. It is used to describe so many different aspects and subjects. For example, in history textbooks or even an analog clock. Mark Johnson and George Lakoff have argued that the linear metaphor is even at work in a digital clock, though no line is actually present.

Focusing on my group’s timeline (Samuel Tippet), he was a very dark soul and pretty religious later in life. Samuel Tippet’s life is in England during the early to mid 18th century. He was born in the parish of Britton. Throughout his life, he turned to God and religion after self-reflecting on his naughty childhood.  To highlight one event, in 1754, the Disciple came to Bristol. This is when Tippet pledged his allegiance to God and used this time period to emphasize and explain why religion was so important to him. The Disciple later moved back to London. Another example following 1754 is the next year where it is a defining moment in Tippet’s life. He feels as if he was in the presence of the Lord himself. Throughout our timeline, we include both photographs that help the reader depict what his life was like and the geography of England as well as what the parishes looked like. Our timeline gives background to his occupation, birth, and other additional facts. The two modes have clarified historical events by visual and conceptual analysis. Looking at media as well as reading the description in a time like order gives the best sense to Samuel Tippet’s life.

Attached is my group’s timeline preview link.

https://timeline.knightlab.com/#preview-embed

 

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Assignment # 1: Samuel Tippet

Click on the picture above to open Samuel Tippet’s book.

I worked on transcribing the text written by Samuel Tippet. As with most older writings, it was confusing to understand the handwriting and a few words. Tippet might have been an educated man but he did make numerous spelling errors. Understanding the words such as ‘ye’ and ‘and’ were very difficult to understand. To transcribe the writing, I started off by reading, or trying, to read all that I could from the text. As I read it, I started to type what he is saying. If I had a difficulty understanding a word, I skipped that word, planning to come back to it later once I understood the context of the writing.

After writing a few sentences, I read back what I just digitized to ensure it made sense, even if spellings were incorrect. Doing this allowed me to understand Tippet’s point of view. He saw himself as a sinner, as a bad person starting from childhood. He talks about how he was a “bad boy” and got even worse as he grew up. He talks about wishing he had died earlier and talks about how bad he has been during his life. He had been through a lot, being raised by a single mother, as his father died when he was young. Knowing so much about him, I could make sense of a few illegible words or words that were hard to understand. Sometimes, it even helped me guess what he was going to write, what he was thinking. After doing all of this, I could go back and understand why he misspelt many words. I understood why he chose the words he did to describe himself. It helped understand why he was so religious, why he talked so much about Jesus. He was definitely an interesting man.

Click here for the latest Google Docs version of the text.