User talk:GONG Kaixuan/sandbox

Kaixuan: when Audrey first raised the idea of uchronia, all of us were very excited since it was very interesting and closely related to our issue "truth". At the very beginning, we read a lot about the term "alternate history", at the same time we all read the most representative uchronia novel by Philip K. Dick, namely The Man in the High Castle. As I am doing a bachelor degree in English literature in China, I recommended myself for the literature section to discuss how truth is constructed in fiction and how uchronia tells truth by alternating history. I collected 5-6 journal articles about alternate history or The Man in the High Castle and got some nice quotations. Also I found a very relevant book by Singles in UCL Library online resources explaining the contingency and necessity in history, which gave me a lot of insights. Based on what I read and was enlightened, I wrote the first draft of "how is truth constructed in uchronia", in which I defined truth in history and in literature to see how this interdisciplinary approach help the understanding of the significance of uchronia. Audrey helped me a lot on the "divergence point" part, since she has a very good knowledge on the novel and this genre. Lena and Mier also helped smooth my logical structure and language in this section. And Lena suggested that I place more emphasis on truth conveyed in literature and separate the extra content about historical truth out. We then decided to move this part out of the literature section and added a new subheading "challenging history". After we all finished our draft and did some refinement on each other's, we found the word count was more than 1200. On the evening of Dec 8, I tried to condense the "introduction" again, changing it from a detailed introduction of uchronia to the introduction part of the whole chapter. Moreover, finally I unified all the references according to vancouver format on https://www.ntnu.edu/viko/vancouver-examples. Although we still need progress on reading more literature and organizing our ideas more effectively after brainstorming, I really enjoy our group's collaboration on gathering inspirations, discussing truth in uchronia with different disciplinary background and refining our writings into a precise and succinct style. It is during this process that I practice the knowledge and thinking I have gained in our ATK course.