Taking the time to review your annotations will also teach you aboutyourself as a reader
Looking back on your annotations and comparing them to others' annotations of the same section is definitely an important part of the annotation process. If you look back at your own annotations and how it compares to the annotations of others', you will be able to get a better grasp of that section, which will enable you to be a better annotator in the future.
Images, including gifs, function in many social annotation platforms.Sometimes writers use these humorously to illustrate their reactions, es-pecially when I ask them to annotate our syllabus and assignment sheets.Reginald, one of my students, included a gif of a man throwing a cellphone against a wall to illustrate his response to a request to keep cellphone notifications off during class.
I have never thought about how people may use annotations in this way to describe how a certain thing makes them feel. It is interesting to think about what can be accomplished with this technology, since it adds another way that you can express yourself during the annotation process.
What experiences haveyou had with annotation? How might those experiences prepare you to read incommunity with others?
I have little experience with annotation, since I have never really thought that it would help me, and none of my previous instructors have ordered me to do so. I think annotation definitely has some benefits to it, but it just does not resonate with me, and maybe that is because I do not view reading the same ways as others.
Very few writers really know what they are doing until they've done it. Nor dothey go about their business feeling dewy and thrilled. They do not type a few stiffwarm-up sentences and then find themselves bounding along like huskies across thesnow
This quote is a good representation of what it is like to write, since most of the time, you do not know what the finished product is going to look like, and getting to that product is also not a simple and smooth path.