I’m coming to an understanding that actually annotating your reading, helps you see the issue in the text and forces the reader to focus on the reading. . Annotating also gives you an idea of how much you’re understanding of the text. English 110 required that we annotate the texts we read, to our ability to “ interrogate readings”. Also how it relates to the upcoming promet that we discussed in class. Susan Gilroy introduces the idea of annotations, how it helps you think critically and break it apart to put put back in your meaningful way. She also talks about the different ways you should be annotating to get something useful from the reading. “Take the information apart, look at its parts, and then try to put it back together again in language that is meaningful to you…. Outlining enables you to see the skeleton of an argument: the thesis, the first point and evidence”(Gilroy). Taking out the parts and putting them back together in your own words could be really hard, but that your making sure that you actually get the idea of the text. One of my best annotations was on Yo-Yo Ma’s article, I gave it my best. I questioned the text, look up words I didn’t know, underlined important sentence, highlighted parts I liked a lot, and I tried to summarize paragraphs that I didn’t understand much to see where I get at. The importland part about annotation is to try to see the point of views of different sides that’s beginning arruged. Also try to reread the text because I bet you the first time you read it you’re going to miss a lot of points, and ideas. That you can see clearly what your beginning asked to believe, and what being thrown at you.
Blog#14 annotation
