Re-reading material is not a sign of stupidity even your professors have to re-read texts! Only annotate when you’ve determined larger concepts or key terms-or, if you want to take notes while reading, do so in pencil. Sometimes, you may have to read the piece twice before you grasp the larger concepts.
KEY TO WRITING ANNOTATIONS FOR GAA HOW TO
When you return to a text you’ve already read-say, to locate evidence for a research paper-and that text contains your annotations, you’ll be able to quickly identify (1) key points that the author made and (2) bits of information that, when reading the piece for the first time, you considered particularly useful.Īs a student and as a professional, you want to learn how to read texts and take notes that are not just definitions of key terms (though key terms might be phrases you include in annotations) rather, you want to learn how to take notes that help jog your memory about larger concepts. So how do annotations work as a reader’s tool? They serve as memory devices.
Now, you may be saying, “Annotation-that reminds me of the annotated bibliography I’ve done before, where I’ve written two-paragraph annotations for each source I’ve found for a paper.” Actually, annotations for a bibliography and annotations for the margins are similar: either way, you’re summarizing key points so that you’ll remember them later. Do you still remember things you read in high school? How can you change the way you read now, in college, so that going forth you will be able to retain the things you learn from others’ writings? By annotating the margins of what you read, you can become a more active reader. You might say, “Well, it was important for me to remember what I read in high school, because I was tested on the material and even had pop quizzes.” But that’s a different type of reading-you were reading to take a test or quiz, so you remembered the material temporarily. As you progress throughout college and into your professional life, it’s going to become increasingly important to remember what you read.
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