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Information Revolutions (2nd Year)

  • 10-11-2007 10:58pm
    #1
    Orizio
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    Relating to our 4000(!!!) word essay on the following:

    More continuity than change?
    Using the prescribed texts on the writing, printing and electronic information revolutions examine why each of them occurred and assess their impact.

    I thought we were supposed to choose a particular event relating to the history of information? So the essay really just is an assessement of the three information revolutions?


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  • #2
    Orizio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,460 ✭✭✭Orizio


    Come on, I know I'm not the only one who is taking second year History on this forum...;)


  • #3
    Ekancone
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    Orizio wrote: »
    Come on, I know I'm not the only one who is taking second year History on this forum...;)

    Well i suppose you could tie the printing format with the reformation?


  • #4
    Carolus Magnus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭Carolus Magnus


    Heh, I'm amazed I didn't see this the first time around. This was due in today: writing it was like some form of slow death by strangulation. How did everyone else find it?

    Sinead Deignan was the one that was giving off the impression that it was a single event that had to be examined in the essay (faint memory suggests she was encouraging entire essays to be written about codicology.) As I came to learn very quickly though; she's full of bollocks. Or rather those lovely notes she insists on reading out of at the speed of some insane gerbil on crack are full of bollocks.


  • #5
    Orizio
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    Essay was alright, got it done early in the space of 4 or 5 nights.Doing the footnotes was painful though.

    Got another problem now, missed this weeks class because of feckin' bus eireann :rolleyes:. What was the geral gist of the class?How exactly does one write a 3000 word review of a website?


  • #6
    Carolus Magnus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭Carolus Magnus


    Gabe was doing the usual spiel about how great a resource the internet is for the historian. Begorrah, did you know that there's this thing called JSTOR out there?! etc. etc. ad nauseum.

    It's a 1,500 word review though. And it's of three websites. One has to be CELT (Oh snap ¬_¬), the other a national archive of some description and then the third at your own discretion. Details should have been sent out in an e-mail there last week.


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  • #7
    Fabio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,262 ✭✭✭Fabio


    Yeah details in the email! I'm just about to get cracking on it...hoping to have it done by tonight.

    The 4000 word essay was a pain to do actually...just couldn't motivate myself to get it done cos the only real interesting bits (well, of my interest shall we say) were things from the modern era such as telephone, computers, tv....to be honest, I had to grind things out about writing and books cos their history isn't of the greatest interest to me, as important as that history may be.


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