Annotation Works!
The very act of writing and thinking while reading leads one to have even more interesting ideas about their text.
Use annotation as a consistent tool in your reading:
Use annotation as a consistent tool in your reading:
- Annotations are a record of your thinking - your personal notes.
- Annotations make remembering your thoughts much easier.
- The act of annotating is a physical interaction with the text. Because you’re interacting with the text with both your hands and your eyes, the multisensory experience makes a much stronger imprint on your mind.
- Annotation is appropriate for ANY subject. Reading happens everywhere!
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Also, “annotations” is more than merely highlighting. It is a dynamic way of interacting with the text. In general, annotation refers to two related things:
- Symbols = These are the physical interactions on the text itself. These might include highlighting, boxing and circling words/phrases, underlining, stars, arrows, question marks, numbers and bullets.
- Marginalia = These are the words a reader writes next to the text in the margins that record thoughts.
- from TeachHub.com