During the creation of this ADE Project, I’ve felt that my take on Ten Days in a Mad-House was not that far-fetched from the original text, nor was it particularly deep analysis. I think that many readers of the original text, even without my contributions, would come to understand similarly how gender norms impacted Nellie Bly’s stay at the Lunatic Asylum. Given this, I didn’t include much background information in the annotations themselves, as I thought it would be redundant. However, my critical introduction does provide some background information about mental health institutions as a whole during the 19th century, not just the specific ones explored in Ten Days in a Mad-House, which I think could be useful as context to any reader. I thought it would be important to note that Bly’s experiences were not solitary, but represent a general trend in the treatment of insanity at the time. It was useful to me as well, as I learned a lot of that context for the first time through working on this project, and it impacted my viewing of the text. For instance, I did not realize how easy it was during the late 1800’s for a man to have his wife institutionalized, even if I knew that this was a somewhat common occurrence before I read Reports from the 19th-Century Asylum. Additionally, I’ve been able to practice my analytical technique through working on this digital edition. This is the first project I’ve worked on where I was tasked to apply literary analysis to non-fiction, which I initially struggled with because the themes of the text were not as explicit. This is also the first time I’ve analyzed one text with a secondary source, which I also struggled with to begin with. However, As I wrote a few more annotations, I got more comfortable seeing similar themes or points of analysis in the two texts I wanted to analyze. Finally, I continued learning how to use WordPress in order to make a functioning ePortfolio. I had previously used my site for English 110, and mainly what I learned through setting up my ADE project was the construction of a decent menu system, in order to navigate the different parts of the project and the reflection blogs. I’m not sure if I’ll use this blog for other professional uses in the future. I Certainly understand that having a website is useful when it comes to presenting professionally, but I’m not sure that, with the field I’m aiming to go into (Marine/biological research science), a site like that would benefit from also having some literary analysis on it. That said, the skills I’ve learned from this project, both concerning analysis and website design, I’ll have for any other projects I work on, even outside of my professional career.