See hand-out Electronic Text Searching.

Exercise: Go to our class homepage (http://www/iupui.edu/~sharrin/hel-html)

Three ways to do research.

1. Simple search

2. Proximity search: For example: noah near ark" or "noah and arl" or "noah not near ark"

3. Boolean search For example and, or, not

3. Exercise: Go to Complete works of Shakespeare. (link from course homepage) (http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~matty/Shakespeare/)

Search "ballow" showed eye dialect( note from smh: and actual dialect!) piece from King Lear.

Search "ch'ill" showed Edgar of King Lear.

4. Exercise: Go to "Michigan Early Modern English Materials" from Dr. Harrington's homepage.

Search "ain't". This didn't work very well, switch to Michigan Humanities Text Institute.

NOTE: Victorian Women writers databases. Try searching for "is being" or "is building" During this time it was considered more proper to say "home is building" then "My home is being built"˙

NOTE: Try comparing African American poetry to newpaper articles.

5. In textbook look at pages 144-5 for Shakespearian language usage, and page 236 for grammar usage through history and page 237 for modal auxiliaries as they vary (e.g. might could, will can).

6. Personal NOTE: Eye dialect is written to indicate that someone is speaking Non-Standard English, but really they're not because˙
they pronounce the words the sam. For example "th'old man" is eye dialect