Digital Scholarship
Digital Scholarship encompasses a wide range of projects that make use of technology in ways that can include research, analysis, composition, and publishing. DLINQ is ready to consult on the design and pedagogical considerations for successful digital scholarship projects in your course.
DLINQ is also happy to facilitate partnerships with librarians and other subject-matter experts. For example, if your project uses datasets, special collections, or other archival data, we can connect you with a librarian who can share their expertise and provide guidance. Depending on the technical needs of your project, we can also facilitate connections with our colleagues in Information and Technology Services.
This page outlines the primary considerations for planning a course-based digital scholarship project.
EXAMPLES
Perspectives on Hairwork: Historic Vermont
This website was built by Professor Ellery Foutch and students of her Middlebury College Winter 2021 class “Material Culture in Focus: Hair & Hairwork” (AMST 1017), a course that explored the multivalent meanings of hair in American culture, past and present. Our research was focused on local examples of hairwork: nineteenth-century hand-made objects constructed from human hair, often exchanged as mementos or transformed into elaborate items of jewelry or keepsake wreaths that emblematized familial relationships and kinship networks.
Social Class and the Environment Textbook
The project for this textbook began in the spring semester of 2020—pre-COVID19. Halfway through that spring semester, all at Middlebury College were sent home. The student-authors in the course opted to continue to work on the textbook. After the pre-COVID19 introduction to SCALAR, student-authors opted to continue with the project because the collaborative writing assignments, pages in SCALAR, could be done virtually by synthesizing synchronous and asynchronous activities, and ZOOM meetings, with each other and me.
The spring 2021 course picked-up where the spring 2020 course left off. This meant going back to the pages student-authors constructed, edit and revise, and create media where appropriate. “Lessons” and any additional pedagogical matter that involves writing on the part of the student user, I created.
Write Like A Scientist
Write Like a Scientist is designed to aid students in writing more effectively in the genres that professional scientists routinely read and write.
Write Like a Scientist differs from the many available scientific writing guides out there. We know that simply reading a tip (“be concise!”) doesn’t immediately translate into understanding and into improved writing. Instead of simply telling students what to write or providing to-do lists, we provide guided practice in recognizing and emulating the features of effective writing and in making intentional writing choices. In doing so, we help students become more flexible and reflective scientific writers who can successfully address multiple audiences.