Sydney Keesee

Senior at Christopher Newport University // Marketing Major // Digital Humanities Minor

[Sydney Keesee @KeeseeSydne]

anything. #cnuengl350

[Sydney Keesee @KeeseeSydne]

As the semester closes, I am looking back at how much I have learned from this class. The coding, helpful writing tips, and practice with all different types of platforms has been so valuable. This class will be very beneficial in the future when I need to analyze and write

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dive into the subject and take a different approach at looking at the problem/task at hand. #cnuengl350

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During class yesterday, we wrote a new definition of what digital humanities means to us. I believe my definition has stayed mostly the same with the interpretation that it is the way to analyze and understand digital materials and writing works. It gives people a way to really

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@maddieh_dh My meeting with her was so clarifying. It is always good to get fresh eyes on your paper to pick out things that you, as the writer, tend to miss.

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My meeting with Dr. Stover was very helpful. Getting her eyes on my paper opened up the discussion of something as important as organization can be in my paper. Moving things around to fit the flow better will make my Grant a lot better. #cnuengl350

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Looking at the notes left on my abstract and project description has opened my eyes in regards to how wordy I can get when I write essays. I am looking forward to my meeting with Dr. Stover to hopefully go over the best ways to eliminate this problem. #cnuengl350

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@lydiaosborne24 I agree, this Grant project has definitely been one I have continuously struggled on. However, the more and more I dive into my research the more prepared I feel to create a Project Description that clearly illustrates what I am trying to make out of this project!

[Sydney Keesee @KeeseeSydne]

before the description. #cnuengl350

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With creating the rough draft for the grant project, I found it to be super easy to use the advice Dr. Stover gave us and to do the abstract after the Project Description. I was able to clearly lay out an abstract for the reader easier than I would have been able to if I did it

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sure everything else was in the right spot as well. #cnuengl350

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I looked at the feedback from my annotated bibliography and have taken into consideration everything that has been said. Some mistakes I made where with two of the scholarly articles which should have been placed with the "Other sources" and it gave me the opportunity to make

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@Maggie_F18 This point was something that stuck with me as well from the guest speaker this past Monday. If you, yourself, can't even describe why the project is important and needed then how can we expect others to want to get involved with it and care about it.

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helpful. I know my resume along with others probably needs that refreshing and refining as we get older and start moving into new stages in our lives. #cnuengl350

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Going over the specifics of what our resume needs to look like for this project was super helpful. It gets easy to use the same resume and just continue to add to it over the years, but going over what exactly should be in it and the time that it should and shouldn't cover was

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will be an automatic disregard for your Grant. #cnuengl350

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Some good points that the guest speaker made today in class is that there are two things to think about with Grant proposals. These are to make sure you are following the directions diligently and also make sure you are meeting deadlines. Not doing one or both of these things

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@lydiaosborne24 I agree that the more personable this project can be, the more it will draw the reader in and be is easy to read and the reader will want to continue reading.

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and different way then other types of grant proposals. #cnuengl350

[Sydney Keesee @KeeseeSydne]

When reading "How Can I Make My Grant Proposal Stand Out From All the Others" it states that two things that create great Grant proposals are credibility and innovation. Therefore, while doing this project my main goal is to provide detailed facts, but to present them in a new