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1. Preparing students for innovative assessmentThings to consider when working with texts
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3. Content CreatorJerome de GrootI work at the University of Manchester on the representation of history in contemporary popular film, television, drama and games; I also work on the literature of the period 1640-1660.3
4. Questions to consider when working with texts
5. Essential InformationAuthor/illustratorTitlePublication details (place, date, printer or publisher)Where can this information be found? (Library catalogues, title pages, colophons?)What is the language of the text?What is the size of the book? What is the history of this book? (Provenance? Details of custody?)5
6. Describing the layout of the text (1)6Does the book contain a single "work" or is it a compilation of "works"?Does the book have a title page or colophon?Does the book have a contents page?Is the text paginated?Is the text foliated?
7. Describing the layout of the text (2)Is there an index?Is there an appendix?Is use made of catchwords?Is/are the work(s) divided into chapters?Is there a list of illustrations?Is there any other form of organising principle obviously at work in the way the text has been presented?7
8. Describing the layout of the text (3)Does the book contain images?Do they follow a narratology of their own? How do the written and visual texts interact?What sort of illustrations are contained? How were they produced?Were the images originally part of the book or is the book "extra-illustrated"?8
9. Describing the Binding9Was the binding made at the same time as the rest of the book? If not when was it made?Was it commissioned specially by the book's owner?What is it made of?How has it been worked?What, if any, is its relationship to the book's content?
10. Social Life of the Book10Who might have read it? Social class? Culture? Gender?How was it read? Is it useful to consider the issue of literacy in relation to this book?Are the book's intellectual property rights of interest? If so, how?Did it have a role to play in a programme of collecting?What else might it tell us about the cultures that created, produced and consumed (and continue to consume) it?
11. The Book’s Prehistory11Have any archives or papers survived which tell the book's prehistory?