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Commonplace Pages

If you like productivity videos on YouTube or TikTok, you may have encountered the term "commonplace books". For Burke (2013) commonplace books are compilations of notes made by intellectuals on "humanist-inspired extracts from classical works". A repository of important information that they might "want to recall, and reuse, at a later date" (Sherman, nd.).

Since learning about it a few years ago, I have succumbed to the trend and started a commonplace book on arts and culture. One day I also thought, why not create a commonplace book that can be accessed online (not as a source of information but as a compilation of what has been out there on a topic I like). Add to that, I also encountered wonderful questions by fellow educators in the university and students. Why not develop this online commonplace book from their questions? 

Thus this page. 

References:

Burke, V. E. (2013). Recent Studies in Commonplace Books. English Literary    
            Renaissance, 43(1), 153–177. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43607607

Sherman, W. H. (n.d.). RENAISSANCE COMMONPLACE BOOKS FROM THE BRITISH LIBRARY. Adam Matthew Publications. https://www.ampltd.co.uk/collections_az/rencpbks-bl/editorial-introduction.aspx

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