When reading, a good reader makes sure to do six things: follow the plot, form opinions, wonder, visualize, make connections, and become emotionally invested(video, laulima: week5). To make these things plausible you must annotate your text. Annotating a text is basically marking up a specific text, article, or reading and creating your own thoughts so that you can better understand it. Everyone may have their own way of annotating a text, but some techniques used are writing brief summaries, listing or numbering ideas, sketching pictures and charts to explain difficult concepts, making predictions of possible test questions, note confusing ideas for clarification, and underlining key points( faculty.catawba.edu/unbothered/war/text annotation.pdf).
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Also by numbering your paragraphs you are easily able to reference them and cite them in a writing or other text, similarly this can also help you focus and remain concentrated on one particular part of the text such as cause and effect or the main detail. The second most common form of annotating an essay includes writing brief summaries of the paragraph you have read, this is perfect because by summarizing the paragraph you can easily take the main ideas out of the paragraph and focus in on those, also you are able to immediately test your understanding of what you have read and, you can also use this for future reference so you do not have to re read the entire text over …show more content…
In your first year of college you are introduced to college-level readings. If you 're like me, you 'll find it very difficult to understand. The easiest thing to do is mark the text with a question mark indicating what it is you don’t understand. When you have a class discussion on the reading, bring up the part of the text you marked for a better understanding. Underlining key ideas/concepts such as, definitions, examples, lists, cause and effects, etc. are helpful in annotating a text. It helps to make more sense of the
Also by numbering your paragraphs you are easily able to reference them and cite them in a writing or other text, similarly this can also help you focus and remain concentrated on one particular part of the text such as cause and effect or the main detail. The second most common form of annotating an essay includes writing brief summaries of the paragraph you have read, this is perfect because by summarizing the paragraph you can easily take the main ideas out of the paragraph and focus in on those, also you are able to immediately test your understanding of what you have read and, you can also use this for future reference so you do not have to re read the entire text over …show more content…
In your first year of college you are introduced to college-level readings. If you 're like me, you 'll find it very difficult to understand. The easiest thing to do is mark the text with a question mark indicating what it is you don’t understand. When you have a class discussion on the reading, bring up the part of the text you marked for a better understanding. Underlining key ideas/concepts such as, definitions, examples, lists, cause and effects, etc. are helpful in annotating a text. It helps to make more sense of the