We are closing in on a prospectus and sample chapters:

• We have a prospectus written
• We have a new version of the site for demonstration purposes
• We have an introduction to the Voyeur (which Geoffrey needs to read)
• We have an introduction for the work that needs more work.
• We are putting Now Analyze That up with the Voyeur tools
• Next we need a recipe and we need the Rhetoric of Text Analysis.

We are aiming to develop a prospectus which would have these parts:

• The Introduction – I’m working on this now.
• One example of the combination of case study and essay. Now Analyze That and the Rhetoric of Text Analysis make sense for this. For this we need to adapt Voyeur to do what TAPoRware and HyperPo do for NAT.
• A letter explaining the background and relevance of this.

I’ve taken a new tack on the case study on Humanist, renaming the essay “The sparrow flies swiftly through”.

I’ve added a draft chapter 2 on Tools for Interpretation. The goals for this chapter are:

• provide an introduction to text analysis
• introduce hermeneutical tools
• discuss text analysis
• provide a history of the field and tools

I’ve adapted some ideas about thinking through to serve as an introduction to the book. I’m trying to weave together ideas of method starting with the DesCartes' Discourse on Method. Some of the threads:

• From method to tools
• Tools as interpretative things – hence hermeneutica
• Responding to the growth of human information. Is it a problem of too much or a problem of how to interpret – and therefore the need for interpretative things?
• Thinking through as a dialogical practice between two people (pair/extreme text analysis), between tools and texts, and between practices and evidence.