The Academic Paper Saga: Episode 2

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Step 3.5 Rework the Thesis
After some helpful suggestions and advice from Dr. Burton, I decided to change the argument of my thesis. Like I said earlier, I had trouble deciding on an argument to make about Manutius. Instead of pitting his success against other Venetian printers of the time, Professor Burton suggested I make an argument about the cause of Manutius’s success, because there were many possible causes for this. This seemed like a clearer, more arguable direction to go in, so here is my new thesis:

The Academic Paper Saga: Episode 1

I knew after I went to class on Thursday that I needed to get started on this academic paper as soon as possible. Not only was an entire draft due by Tuesday, but I had no idea what direction I wanted to go in or even how to write a historic persuasive/argumentative essay. During class, I talked with Kody Wood who was in my group for Typography, and we bounced around ideas. We seriously considered doing a group collaborative paper because neither of us had done it before, and we thought it would a cool way to showcase this unit. However, after talking it out with Holland, our other group member, we decided with three busy schedules to accommodate and no definite direction for our paper, we would each embark upon our own paths. And this is the beginning of mine...

Annotated Bibliography: History of Typography, 1450-1700

Just a quick definition: what is typography?  "...it is not merely the shapes of letters and the manner of making them that requires study but also their size, the spacing between lines, the size and proportion of the printed page..."  (B.L. Ullman, The origin and development of humanistic script, 1960)

 Included is my bibliography with information on the author, publisher, and year. There is a short synopsis on each source and in brackets at the end of each annotation, I include how I found the source and what it was like to consult it in print.