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The Interactive Notebook: How Students Learned to Keep Notes during the Scottish Enlightenment

Eddy, M.

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Concentrating on the rich tradition of graphic culture that permeated Scotland’s universities during the long eighteenth century, this essay argues that student lecture notebooks were a sophisticated form of scribal media. I reveal that they were inscribed, assembled, bound, bought, sold, disassembled, edited, annotated, pirated, plagiarized, and circulated in a manner that transformed them into tools through which students learned to interactively manage knowledge on paper. In following this path, I transform student notetaking into a dynamic activity that played a central role in shaping the knowledge economy so characteristically associated with the Scottish Enlightenment.

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Eddy, M. (2016). The Interactive Notebook: How Students Learned to Keep Notes during the Scottish Enlightenment. Book History, 19(1), 86-131. https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2016.0002

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Oct 13, 2015
Online Publication Date Jan 9, 2017
Publication Date Aug 1, 2016
Deposit Date Oct 13, 2015
Publicly Available Date Jun 29, 2016
Journal Book History
Print ISSN 1098-7371
Electronic ISSN 1529-1499
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 19
Issue 1
Pages 86-131
DOI https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2016.0002

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Copyright © 2016 The Johns Hopkins University Press. This article first appeared in Book History, Volume 19, Issue 1, 2016, pages 86-131.





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