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This article discusses best practices for teaching text encoding in undergraduate literary studies courses. It examines learning outcomes associated with text encoding and ways of incorporating encoding into the teaching of literary analysis, as well as advantages and challenges, concluding that encoding activities and assignments offer unique opportunities for learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Data Mining is one of the emerging subfields in computer science and statistics and focuses on finding patterns or relations between large datasets to solve problems and collect in-depth analysis. The use of data mining in literary and cultural datasets allows us to better understand and analyze cultural patterns and past events. This paper explores how the process is carried out and highlights the areas where it can be used to obtain vital information. The paper contains a few applications where data mining is used to collect comparative analysis of past events, understanding the spread of a disease which caused 500 million deaths worldwide, predicting the author of the world's oldest anthem based on the style of writing. Furthermore, the scope of data mining in humanities is discussed and it is hoped this paper will expand readers' thought and provoke ideas about the new and advanced methods used in the field of humanities to have greater insight into our past, culture, and literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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What we propose in this article is to show, based on an example, how new teaching methods are adopted in the field of philology in an age where we move from an analog world to a digital one. Thus, we will present, first, some positive and negative opinions about the digital era in which we move. Secondly, we will focus on the methodology used in the Department of Romance Philology from the University of Zurich for the creation of an online course of linguistics and another of Romance literature for students of the first course. Thirdly, it will be mentioned the advantages and disavantages of such a project. And, finally, we will take some conclusions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the use of design by an author in process of writing. "Designed Authorship," has become a popular label in the past decade. Authorship lends legitimacy, origination, and agency to the design profession, addressing the designer's potential to produce meaning as well as communicate it. Famous author Anne Burdick guest edited a series of essays for "Emigre," magazine in the mid 90s exploring what happens when the worlds of writing and design coincide, overlap and collide. After these practices two distinct definition of "Designer-as-Author," emerged. The first describes designers writing about design to provide analysis and provoke dialogue within the profession whereas the second describes designers producing meaning as part of their practice-inscribing their interpretation onto the content. The author states that for being a design practitioner he can create several nametags for himself using such labels. He also added that when he was writing this article he was an author in a more traditional sense, writing to instigate dialogue about design practice.

This essay introduces a special issue on The Literary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]