The second Christmas of the project is now upon us and the team have gone their separate ways to spend the festive period with their loved ones. This seems a good opportunity to take stock of how the project is going, as we are now at the halfway point of the four years of the … Continue reading “Merry Christmas from the EDIT team”
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Academic Writing Month Update #3
So Academic Writing Month 2014 has been and gone. On the whole I have found it to be an enjoyable and useful experience, and a way to keep my thesis at the front of my mind, despite all of the other irons we have in the fire at the Estoria Project. In this post I … Continue reading “Academic Writing Month Update #3”
Project goings-on
AcWriMo – Weekly Update #2 After a short pause to allow for our annual colloquium and the necessary preparations (read: crazy couple of days sorting out last minute things) I have managed to Crack On with Academic Writing Month. Finding time for academic writing (I feel that should be capitalised but I will refrain) was more … Continue reading “Project goings-on”
Revised transcription Guidelines and preparation course
In advance of the colloquium at Magdalen College Oxford, we have published a revised set of Transcription Guidelines for the project, which can be found here. Polly and Christian have now finished the training course for transcribing for the Estoria project (with thanks to Enrique, Alicia and Marine for help with the translations).
Academic Writing Month – Weekly Update #1
One of the rules of Academic Writing Month is that you are supposed to discuss what you are doing. I pledged to write a weekly blog post for that reason. This is my first update, which must mean that the first of the four weeks has already gone. So far I have been using the … Continue reading “Academic Writing Month – Weekly Update #1”
Academic Writing Month at the Estoria de Espanna
Today I am starting a 20-day productivity challenge as part of Academic Writing Month 2014. This coincides with a heavy month over at Estoria Towers including our second annual colloquium, this time in Oxford, and a postgraduate workshop to be led by Christian and me at the UAM. It might seem that such a busy … Continue reading “Academic Writing Month at the Estoria de Espanna”
Musings on yesterday’s Transcription Jamboree
Sometimes the smallest comment someone makes just sticks with you. This is true for me with a comment I remember Aengus making back when I was a second year undergraduate in his Spanish intermediate linguistics class. He said something about not realising what you don’t know until you try to teach it to someone else. … Continue reading “Musings on yesterday’s Transcription Jamboree”
EDIT announces the programme for our upcoming colloquium in Oxford
A new academic year
The new academic year is here and in full swing at Estoria HQ, and is promising to be even busier and more exciting than last year. Hold onto your hats. We have started to get dates sorted for various talks we will be giving and postgraduate workshops we will be running over the coming months. … Continue reading “A new academic year”
Abbreviation marks – to expand or not to expand
Scholars are divided as to whether or not those who transcribe medieval texts should expand abbreviation marks. As soon as a transcriber expands an abbreviation, he or she is making an assumption about what the scribe is using the abbreviation mark to represent. For this reason, some historical linguists are of the opinion that expanding … Continue reading “Abbreviation marks – to expand or not to expand”