Whether written into the margins of texts, integratedinto the print, or digitally superimposed, in what contexts have you encoun-tered annotations written by another person? In what ways have you sharedyour annotations with other readers?
When I use to go to used bookstores to buy books I could sometimes find books with annotations in them it was interesting reading what people were thinking as I was thinking the same thing!
Figure 4. Screenshot of wmcleod’s annotation of Susan Antebi’s Embodied Ar-chive with the hashtags #UMPAnnotates and #DisabilityStudies. This imagedoes not fall within the CC license for this work.
I had never even thought about that! Like you're writing an article about said disabilities but the article itself may not even cater to the very disability its speaking on and bring awareness to. Like even I had a hard time processing that text.
Have you ever wondered about the inspiration for the lyrics to yourfavorite song? The popular lyrics site, Genius (genius.com) for example,allows readers to annotate song lyrics.
I've been using that site for years! I love Genuis! Sometimes I genuinely can't figure out what the meaning behind a song is or I make my own interpretations and see if I hit the name on what the song was about straight from the artist themself!
Reading others’ annotations can help you see more in the text than youmight find on your own.
This has been probably my favorite part about English as a whole is that everything is fluid and nothing is set in stone. How I feel on the subject may not be the same way someone else is feeling on the subject. How I view a sentence may be the polar opposite of how my peer sees the sentence. Theres no one way to see something!