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Annotating

Annotating. The How’s and Why’s. What Is Annotating?. Fancy definition: it helps readers reach a deeper level of engagement and promotes active reading of a text. Not-so-fancy definition: Marking up a piece of literature so that you, the reader, can figure out what is going on

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Annotating

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  1. Annotating The How’s and Why’s

  2. What Is Annotating? • Fancy definition: it helps readers reach a deeper level of engagement and promotes active reading of a text. • Not-so-fancy definition: Marking up a piece of literature so that you, the reader, can figure out what is going on • Consider your annotations a conversation with the piece of writing. You should make personal connections to it, comment on its construction, ask it questions, etc.

  3. Why Annotate? • We annotate because it makes us better readers! • Remember all of those times you read a long piece of literature and couldn’t remember what had happened? Yep, it is because all you did was skim some information and then forget it as you fell asleep. When you actively read, you pay more attention, you pick up on more in the text, and you remember what you read. • A well-annotated text will: • Clearly identify where in the text important ideas and information are located • Express the main ideas of the text • Trace the development of ideas throughout a text • Introduce the reader’s thoughts and reactions

  4. How to Annotate • Highlight/Underline • Key words and phrases • Specific language or ideas to cite or quote • Parts of text that you want to make notes about • Least active form of reading—don’t over-rely on it • Paraphrase/summarize • Find ideas/lines that seem important and put them in your own words • Summarize each page to help you remember what was said

  5. Continued… • Descriptive Outline • Do at the end of the piece of text • Break it down into parts to show where ideas are introduced and developed • Allows you to follow author’s thought process • Comments/Responses • Reactions—agreement and disagreement • Questions • Personal experience • Connection to other ideas or texts

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