Presentation given to 3rd Year Undergraduate English Students on Narrative Analysis module at Brimingham City University. Followed by demonstration of eMargin text annotation software: http://emargin.bcu.ac.uk/

1. A collaborative textual annotation tool rdues.bcu.ac.uk Research & Development Unit for English Studies Andrew Kehoe Director

3. Issue: English Literature Study How do you study a printed text? ‘ Close Reading’: detailed study of short text extracts down to individual word level.

7. Increasing emphasis on e-texts but surprising lack of software to support close reading. Difficult to annotate (‘sticky notes’) Difficult to search annotations Difficult to share annotations

10. Demonstration http://emargin.bcu.ac.uk [email_address]