academic writing
this appears above a title and includes key information such as your name, the professor's name, the assignment and the due date
To annotate a text means to ______ pages with notes.
What is 'mark'?
His essay ends with the line "...I still can even think about home, still imagine it as a sweet notion- ever offshore, ever out of my reach, a place locked in a dream."
Who is Richard Ford?
the city and country where Marji goes to study after the start of the revolution
What is Vienna, Austria?
What is a biographical/autobiographical lens?
a quotation or reference to a book, paper or author
What is a citation?
this type of annotation is a way to identify main ideas in a text
What is underlining/highlighting?
This writer's essay uses the words and ideas of spiritual leaders, poets, and scientists to support his claims.
Who is Scott Russell Sanders?
Mehri
the lens which analyzed information in the context of the time period in which it was created
What is a historical lens?
What is a thesis statement?
this type of annotation involves expressing the ideas of the text in your own words
What is paraphrasing (in the margins)/ summarizing?
this author was also a well-regarded photographer
Who was Eudora Welty?
worried that the borders will soon close, Marji and her parents go on a three-week vacation to these two places.
What are Spain and Italy?
What is a feminist/gender lens?
What is parallel structure?
the kind of annotation that allows you to follow the structure of the argument and the writer's thought process
What is descriptive outline?
the U. C. Berkeley professor who wrote Imagining Homelands
Who was Bharati Mukherjee?
What was the Cinema Rex?
the approach which focuses on elements such as language, structure and tone, and discards the notion of cultural or societal influence on text
What is a formalist lens?
this method of avoiding confusion in your own writing involves means signaling clearly at every point so your readers can clearly tell who is saying what
What is distinguishing voices?
this category of annotation includes symbols and visual reminders such as asterisks, arrows, and simple drawings
What are graphic organizers?
the author of Maus, the graphic novel which inspired Marjane Satrapi to create Persepolis
Who is Art Spiegelman?
Marji's father hid a poster of this singer in the lining of his jacket to smuggle it into Iran as a present for Marji
Who is Kim Wilde?
this approach emphasizes logical structures as binary pairs, such as life/death or rich/poor.
What is a deconstructionist lens?