Once you've chosen your research topic and collected some sources...
Option #1: Create one large word documents with notes on each text.
Option #2: Create a spreadsheet with notes on each text.
Both of these options limit the organizational framework into a linear model.
Why Networks?
What is a Network?
“network is a set of interconnected nodes” (Castells, 2001, p. 3).
"Others see networks as thing-like and place-like but comprised of nodes that are far more heterogeneous, made up of “different components accommodated by [an] open architecture”... that enables the network to grow and the nodes to interrelate" (Swarts, 2015, p. 120).
Networks vs. Ecologies
In 1986, Marilyn Cooper proposes "an ecological model of writing, whose fundamental tenet is that writing is an activity through which a person is continually engaged with a variety of socially constituted systems" (p. 367)
"Sources are suspended among many disparate forces while writers compose; they are rather like tiny knots held in part among a skein of ties that coalesces motives, arguments, references, generalist and disciplinarily-situated vocabularies, sites of production, and space-time coordinates." (Mueller, 2015)
Building a Knowledge Network with Obsidian
Using Obsidian
Creating a Folder for Your Project
Creating a New Note
Connecting Notes
Use double brackets "[[linked note]]" to create links between notes.
Works Cited
Castells, M. (2002). The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society. OUP Oxford.
Mueller, D. (2015). Mapping the Resourcefulness of Sources: A Worknet Pedagogy. Composition Forum, 32. https://compositionforum.com/issue/32/mapping.php
Swarts, J. (2015). Network. In P. Heilker & P. Vandenberg (Eds.), Keywords in Writing Studies (pp. 120–124). Utah State University Press. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/louisville/detail.action?docID=1977043
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