Using a Computer to Find and

Store Information
 Computers

Finding Information Storing Information Retrieving Information

You can searching through itu ini anu way you please.
 The advantege of having a text on computerised
form :

1.You can find things in itu very easily using computerised search
techniques

2. You can do more complicated searches than you ever could

with a printed concordance.
 Using Your Supervisor

Supervisor reviews what you have done.

As a student who is being supervised it is you who have to be

proactive rather than reactive.
 Proactive

2. Try to arrange for

1. Prepare 3. Take an 4. Do not let
a weitten record of
questions and an active role in the channel of
what has been
informal agenda for asking for communicatio
agreed for next
the next meeting. appointments. n with your
meeting.
supervisor
close.
 Planning your time

When liberalisasi are closed

Delays while materialis arrive through

the post

Days when you dont feel like working

 Summary, Suggestion and exercises

Summary: information gathered from references sources anda

advice sought from teacher ke supervisor.
 Specific Suggestion

-Decide which partai of a text to focus on particularly.

- Make an informed choice about which version of a text to ide.
- Beware of quoting from deconstruction sources.
- Find out what information sources are available to you.
- Look foto ideas on the shelves and on their catalogue of your library.
- Be open to chance discovered.
-Dont read everythings in the same way.
-Take notes.
-When you take notes, keep a full record of all sources.
- Use the flexibility of computerised texts.
- Take the initiative anda negotiate without your supervisor
- Vary your working pattern.
 Exercise

1. Choosr one literatur text which you

might work on which is
representative,well-known, neglected

2. Kitchen sink

3. Pick a brief passage from a poem you

belive to be famous.

4. Pick a work you have recently read

or are in the process of reading.

5. Make a simple set of note on

critical work.

6. Draw up a contract.
The form of your argument
 Essay Types

Commenting on a given
passage

How would you describing

Who is the speaker
the style of the passage

Who does the passage seem Are they any noticeable

to be afdressing changed of mood

What theme or general issue How far ia the passage

ia the passage Concerned
with
What is the overarching
Function or effect of the
passage
supposee to be realistic
What effect does the passage
have on you
 Analysing and interpreting

Analysis and interpretasi on id structures in a text are useful if

you can make something of them.
 Descriptive essays

General essay or abstract essay ia necessary to Find other means of

organisme an arguments.
 Argumentative essay

You divide the issue you are addressing into conflicting

position or points of view' or siswa of an argument.
 Experimenting

A literary experiment changes a text and looks atau

how the change affects a reader.
 You need Yo consider ethical issues which arise:

a. Getting their permission to use the results

b. Showing them the results and explaining them

c. Not using their named when you unlike to be any point'.

d. The ethical problem that sometimes an experiment ia best

conducted.
 Providing contexts for texts

Another form of Argument to be considered involves analysis of what

else was happening at the time a text was written anda first
published.