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Field notes on science & nature
Pioneering a new niche in the study of plants and animals in their natural habitat, this book allows readers to peer over the shoulders and into the notebooks of a dozen eminent field workers, to study firsthand their observational methods, materials, and fleeting impressions.
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Too much to know
The flood of information brought to us by advancing technology is often accompanied by a distressing sense of \"information overload,\" yet this experience is not unique to modern times. In fact, says Ann M. Blair in this intriguing book, the invention of the printing press and the ensuing abundance of books provoked sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European scholars to register complaints very similar to our own. Blair examines methods of information management in ancient and medieval Europe as well as the Islamic world and China, then focuses particular attention on the organization, composition, and reception of Latin reference books in print in early modern Europe. She explores in detail the sophisticated and sometimes idiosyncratic techniques that scholars and readers developed in an era of new technology and exploding information.
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Mapping Atlantis: Olof Rudbeck and the Use of Maps in Early Modern Scholarship
This article merges the history of maps with new research on scholarship, showcasing how the use of maps significantly shaped early modern knowledge. More specifically, the article examines the scholarly practices of the seventeenth-century Swedish polymath Olof Rudbeck, who thought he had discovered Atlantis. The article identifies four areas of particular importance, highlighting how maps facilitated a conflation of history and geography for Rudbeck, how he tied information to geographical places through note-taking on maps, how access to maps shaped his research interests, and how he used maps to construct credible arguments.
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Too much to know : managing scholarly information before the modern age
The flood of information brought to us by advancing technology is often accompanied by a distressing sense of 'information overload', yet this experience is not unique to modern times. In fact, says Ann Blair in this intriguing book, the invention of the printing press and the ensuing abundance of books provoked sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European scholars to register complaints very similar to our own. The author examines methods of information management in ancient and medieval Europe as well as the Islamic world and China, then focuses particular attention on the organization, composition, and reception of Latin reference books in print in early modern Europe. She explores in detail the sophisticated and sometimes idiosyncratic techniques that scholars and readers developed in an era of new technology and exploding information.
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Special Forum: Handwriting and Power in Early Stuart England Introduction
Early Stuart England was awash in handwriting. Handwriting was the medium of property records, law, account books, and scholarly note taking. A large share of government was conducted through handwritten policy briefs, registers, and circular letters. Equally, it was the medium of prisoners, beggars, petitioners, and village wits. Collectors compiled handwritten poems, prophecies, speeches, recipes, and anecdotes. The number of English people who knew how to operate a printing press was probably in the low hundreds, the number who could write at least a bit likely in the hundreds of thousands. Writing was accessible, widely understood, and practiced. It was the medium to hand.
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Chiapan Notes
A large portrait of Ernesto Guevara (\"Hasta la victoria siempre\"), chipped at eye level, and a bust of Emiliano Zapata (\"Tierra y Libertad\"), rifle in the right hand, frame a wooden front door, dilapidated but obstructed by a metal chain. A villager, Zapatista, was recently shot by paramilitaries; it's one of the reasons we're here: an all-too-modest internationalist solidarity, taking notes on the situation, bearing witness in the event of clashes, drafting a report on human rights. \"Zapatism is a small movement and Mexico is uninterested,\" asserted an inhabitant of Chiapas's cultural capital, the \"vampire city\" whose walls are sprinkled with stenciled depictions of political prisoners and freshly traced slogans from the National Front of Struggle for Socialism: \"No to paramilitarization,\" \"Solidarity with prisoners,\" \"Health is a right, not a luxury,\" \"No to state terrorism,\" \"Medicine for the people\" . . [...]we ate every day-kidney beans and tortillas, for the most part-under the portrait of Abdullah Öcalan, the PKK leader incarcerated by the Turkish state, and slept in bunk beds usage would have us describe as \"makeshift.\"
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THE PRACTICE OF NOTE-TAKING IN TAYLOR WHITE’S NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTION
Between the 1750s and 1770s Taylor White compiled over 750 manuscript notes to accompany his collection of animal portraits. These notes are written on individual unbound sheets of paper, and offer descriptions of the birds, mammals and fish that he commissioned to be painted. Examination of the structure and content of White’s notes reveals that he chose and edited information from published sources while supplementing this with his own personal observations, that he wrote in both Latin and English, and that he obtained the help of an assistant to copy out many of his drafts in a more refined hand. This article discusses what White’s purpose might have been in compiling these notes, what relationship they held to his collection of images, and how his note-taking practices aligned with the contemporary eighteenth-century culture of note-taking and information management in natural history.
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Effects of a Guided-Notes Intervention Program on the Quiz and Note-Taking Greek History Performance of High School Students with Learning Difficulties in Cyprus
The effects of guided notes (GN) in the English-speaking population are well documented. Limited empirical research has examined the effectiveness of GN with other non-English–speaking students. Hence, the present study investigated the effects of a GN intervention program on the academic performance of five students with learning difficulties during history class in a high school setting in Cyprus. An experimental reversal ABAB design was utilized to assess students’ quiz and note-taking performance. Condition A consisted of regular classroom instruction, whereby the teacher lectured on historical events and students took their own notes. Condition B consisted of students completing GN while the teacher presented the history topic with PowerPoint slides. Students’ learning performance was measured by (a) the number of correct responses on timed quizzes the following day and (b) the completeness and accuracy of notes taken during history instruction. Results evidenced a strong functional relation between students’ academic performance and the GN program for all students. Student quiz performance improved by 23.5% to 33.5% during intervention. Similar findings were noted for note-taking performance. Positive social validity outcomes from the teacher and students support the practicality of the program. Implications for practice are discussed.
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Blasphemous Sentence Patterns in the Reform Era of Indonesia
During the reformation era in Indonesia, a unique form of religious blasphemy frequently occurred, in which minorities targeted the majority. The objective of this research is to describe sentence patterns based on the structure of syntactic functions, categories, and roles, as well as the syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations between the blasphemed entity and the act of blasphemy itself. The data consist of declarative, interrogative, and imperative sentences sourced from social media and mass media. Data collection methods included literature review and observation, employing note-taking techniques. The classified data were analyzed using qualitative, descriptive-analytic, and interpretative methods. The findings reveal that religious blasphemy sentences exhibit fundamental patterns. Based on the construction of syntactic functions, the identified sentence patterns include: S-P-CompEl-Comp, S-Ø-P-Comp, S-Ø-P, S-P-O, S-P-Comp, S-P-O-Comp-Comp, QuestionWord-S-P-O-Comp, S-P-Comp, and S-P-CompEl-Comp. Based on the construction of the syntactic function filler category, there are sentence patterns: NP-VP-NP-PrepP, NP-Copula-NP-AdvP, NP-Copula-NP, NP-VP-NP, NP-VP-PrepP, NP-VP-NP-AdvP, QuestionWord -NP-VP-NP-AdvP, NP-VP-AdvP, dan NP-VP-NP-AdvP. Based on syntactic roles, the sentence patterns include: beneficiary–activity–patient, beneficiary–copulative– identity–explanation., beneficiary-copulative-identity, agent-active action-patient, patient-passive action-locative, agent-active action-patient-explanation, Interogative-patient-passive action-agent-explanation, agent-activity-explanation, and agent-prohibitive action-patient-explanation. Syntagmatically, these blasphemed elements have semantic relations that contradict the cultural values of the religion being blasphemed, as well as involve the desecration of sacred religious symbols.
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