Observed arrival · 2026-09-22
G. Thomas Goodnight — The Working Archive
A family-built scholarly archive preserving G. Thomas Goodnight’s published work, drafts, revisions, biography, and proposed conversational interface.
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- Rhetoric scholars, archivists, and researchers of writing processes
- Worth noticing
- The archive reports 137 works surviving in three or more dated drafts, including 82 published works with working drafts.
Field notes
The project combines biographical records with recovered working material from 34 drives and backups, covering files from 2002–2020. It emphasizes revision history rather than only finished publications, including 4,411 recovered paragraph revisions and 137 works with at least three dated drafts. A proposed conversational interface would use the archive to answer questions with sources shown, but the homepage identifies the broader project as still in development.
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