Communicate our experiences

Charles Bernstein

Class Profiler: Check Levels

This is a list of rhetorical features of individual classes. Pick one class and rate it for each of these characteristics. Rate the levels of these features on a one to ten scale with one the lowest level and ten the highest level. Be specific: give examples to support assessment. Compare two classes based on these features. Also: compare any group of classes based on their likeness/difference from one another. (NOTE: please provide additional parameters for the Profiler, which is in development.)

Name of Class: ENGL 116B - Introduction to Electronic Literature Professor: D. Snelson Today’s Date: 10/14/2017 Your name: AW

ratings 1 (low) to 10 (high)

Stylistic Textures and Poetic Diction Coefficient of weirdness (wackiness quotient)___10 Ambiguity____9 Ambivolence____8 Irreverence____8 Sobriety____2 Humor____6 Eloquence____7 Plainness____1 Sincerity____4 Smoothness (vs roughness, bumpiness, striation)____3 Neat (vs messy)____1 Pretentiousness____2 Subtlety (vs bluntness)____3 Indirect (vs straightforward)____4 Intelligence____9 Visual imagery____7 Dreaminess____3 Particularity (vs generality) of details____3 Stylistic consistency____1 Innovation____8 Originality____10 Ornamental/decorative____2 Relevance____3 Tastefulness____4 Speech-like____1 Dialect___1 Sampling (use of found or quoted material)____10 Comprehensibility____5 Coherence____5 Spontaneity____8 Exploratory____10 Density____8 Predictability____1 Abstractness____8 Sensuousness____1 Weariness____1 Sophistication ____3 Timidity____1 Bravado____3 Courage___6 Unusual vocabulary____9 Complexity____9 Repetitiveness____4 Self-consciousness____7 Artifice (vs “natural”)____8 Difficulty____8 Modern/contemporary (vs old fashioned)____9 Transparency Ratio (outward vs inward pointing)____9

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