Here lies the remains of a research project undertaken for the WRI220 module on the Writing BA course at Dartington College of Arts.
The question of the research is detailed in the first few pages, but in summary it is:
How do texts of different genders differ?
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Contents
- Preface and Introduction
- Method
- Background/Theoretical Research: Covering: Feminine Writing, Masculine Writing, Gender Categories and Difference, and Textuality on the Internet. It contains a few example texts to illustrate some of the points.
- Rationale: This presents a rationale for my statistical research.
- System Development: Detailing the development of the text-gender detection system. This is where the language starts to get technical, or at least dense. I have tried to make it as accessible as possible, but understandably this is difficult.
- Analysis: Various statistical analyses of gendered texts. Again, this section is often dense and technical. I am also not a statistician, which complicates things somewhat. Navigation changes a bit here too, but this is explained on the first page.
- Evaluation
- Bibliography