Annotation and Note-taking
A powerful strategy for engaging with a text and entering a discussion with it.
What is annotation? =Capturing these ideas as they occur to you is important, for they may play a role in not just understanding the text better but also in your college assignments.
-jot down questions and ideas as they come to you.
-underline important sections
-circle words you don’t understand
-use your own set of symbols to highlight portions that you feel are important
When a student looks at the author’s name, skims through the reading looking for headings and looking for any images: photographs, charts, graphs, maps, or other illustrations.
What are pre-reading Strategies?
Incorporating the order of ideas, highlighting relationships, unifying concepts, and letting readers know what’s coming next or reminding them about what’s already been covered in the writing.
What are transitions/signal words?
These techniques are used to
●Take careful notes.
●Review what constitutes common knowledge.
●Use signal phrases to mark the boundaries of source material.
●Cite all borrowed ideas.
●Put paraphrases and summaries in your own words.
●Use quotation marks around borrowed language.
What are tips for avoiding plagiarism?
This technique identifies or names the piece (“Article Title”) and its author(s) (Author’s Full Name) and states the main purpose of the text, avoiding minor details, opinions, and quotations, the reader’s opinions, feelings, beliefs, counterarguments, etc., and condenses a text to just a few sentences mentioning the author several times (i.e. The author stated...Last name explained...The writer mentioned...He/She referred to...)
What is a summary?
Example:
Title: A Summary of “Consider the Lobster” by David Foster Wallace
Summary topic sentence format:
In the article “Article Title”, written by Author’s Full Name for Journal Title/Magazine Title/Newspaper Title/Website Title, Author’s Last Name verb (vary the verbs: explained, discussed, revealed, brought out, pointed out, described, or shed light on, using all past tense verbs) that… (main idea).
The method used to write a quick summary of your reading immediately after you’ve finished to capture the reading’s main points and discuss any questions you had or any ideas that were raised.
What is a Reading journal?
An overall picture of what to expect helps build a plan for what the author wants you to know at the end of the reading and provides clues to the text’s content through in-depth reading to make understanding easier and more effective.
What are the benefits of pre-reading?
When building cohesion in an essay, consider its overall flow and purpose by identifying key ideas and determining how they can best be structured.
What is the pattern of organization?
●Leave one-inch margins on all sides of every page.
●Double-space the entire text.
●Include your last name and the page number on each page, one-half inch below the top and flush with the right margin.
●Indent the first line of each paragraph one-half inch.
What is formatting the paper in MLA?
A method where the writer will come back to different parts of the process again and again—most likely to keep moving forward toward your final writing goal, and your writing is also likely to reveal your full potential as a writer.
What is Recursive Writing?
A method of note-taking where the reader engages in a dialogue or a discussion between two (or more) voices trying to figure something out for organizing these different sets of thoughts.
What is Dialectic Note-taking?
A method of reading in a way that helps you understand, evaluate, and reflect on a written text.
What is reading effectively?
Most of what you read contains three essential components, which are known as _________.
1. Topic
2. Main idea
3. Supporting details
What are the Key Elements of Writing?
●Begin the list on a new page at the end of your paper.
●Center the heading about one inch from the top.
●Alphabetize the list by the last names of the authors.
●If a work has no author (or editor), alphabetize by the first word of the title other than A, An, or The.
●Do not indent the first line of each entry. Indent any additional lines one-half inch.
●Copy URLs exactly as they appear in your browser; do not add hyphens or spaces.
●If a URL runs more than three lines, you may shorten it but include at least the website host.
What is formatting the Works-Cited list in MLA?
The act of seeing something anew. This means considering higher-level concerns in your essay, for example, how well the essay addresses the audience or purpose of the piece.
What is Revision?
Language, abbreviations, or terms used by specific groups—typically those involved in a profession—to make conversation simpler because everyone in the group knows the lingo.
What is Jargon?
Tools that include previewing related assignments or lectures prior to reading, specific note-taking methods while reading, and ways of thinking about and organizing the information after completing the reading.
What is “Reading to write” or when a student reads as a writer?
This sentence is the only one in a reading that is general enough to be connected to every other statement.
What is the Main Idea?
The author's last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the essay is an example of _________________.
What is MLA format (author-page method) for in-text citation parenthetical citation?
Please Google Purdue MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics for detailed citation guidelines.
What is done at the end to make sure that your final draft is free from errors.
What is Proofreading?
Ways in which a writer and speaker effectively explains, describes, or argues or persuades their audience.
What is Rhetoric?
When reading, questioning the text by establishing the author’s main point, locating information the author provides to support the central idea, determining the kind of evidence the author uses, finding the author’s main purpose and tone, and deciding if the author is presenting the information objectively or subjectively (sway the reader).
When a reader analyzes/studies the structure of the piece (organization), analyzes/examine the text itself (content), captures the text’s main points (summary), critiques the text (judges the text's effectiveness), reach conclusions (make inferences), combine their own ideas with the textual analysis (synthesize/merge new ideas).
What is Reading Critically?
These points help to ______________________.
●typically appear in the introductory paragraph
●usually appears as the last or next-to last sentence in a paragraph
●are supported and directly related to the topic sentences in a passage
What is locate the thesis statement/main idea in a reading?
Below is the criteria for _________________.
Author. Title. Title of container (self contained if book), Other contributors (translators or editors),
Version (edition), Number (vol. and/or no.), Publisher, Publication Date, Location (pages,
paragraphs URL or DOI). 2nd container’s title, Other contributors, Version, Number, Publisher,
Publication date, Location, Date of Access (if applicable).
What is an every for the Works Cited page?
Good writing involves ______________.
What is taking a risk?