Research Index (5.2)

Literacy in the Arts: Volume 5, Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2018

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We, The Jury: Documenting Diverse Responses to Delia’s Culpability in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat”

Jane S. Townsend and Sally B. Crane

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1. The handout of murder charges is a compilation of charges taken from Gerald N. Hill and Kathleen T. Hill’s The People’s Law Dictionary, retrieved from http://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?review=true.
2. a. Definitions of Murder Charges from The People’s Law Dictionary. b. “Admissibility of Battered-Spouse-Syndrome Evidence in Alaska” from Duke University School of Law/Alaska Law Review. c. “Battered Women Who Kill: Impact of Expert Testimony Type and Timing” from Psychiatry, Psychology & Law.
3. Crane determined the number by surmising, to the best of her ability as an observer, complete utterances.
4. Crane successfully recorded Group 2’s discussions for both days. Crane only successfully recorded one day for Groups 1 and 3. Thus, technical difficulties account for the discrepancy in the number of utterances between Group 2 and Groups 1 and 3.
5. The recorder for Group 1 malfunctioned on the second day of recording, so Crane could not document their collaboration in writing the essay.
6. https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/alr/vol32/iss1/5
7. http://ed-ubiquity.gsu.edu/wordpress/meacham-3-2/