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Active Reading Annotations

Annotating text helps readers actively engage with and better understand what they are reading. The document recommends selectively underlining, circling, or marking key information, terms, ideas and transitions directly in the text and margins to highlight important details. It also suggests writing questions, outlines and summaries in the margins to actively process the information.

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Active Reading Annotations

Annotating text helps readers actively engage with and better understand what they are reading. The document recommends selectively underlining, circling, or marking key information, terms, ideas and transitions directly in the text and margins to highlight important details. It also suggests writing questions, outlines and summaries in the margins to actively process the information.

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Active Reading: Annotating Text

Annotating text helps you to think about what you are reading, leading to a
better understanding of the text. For this assignment, do all
annotations directly on the text and in the margins. Be selective—do
not mark everything!

Helpful strategies:

• Preview the selection. Write a question about the title and any
subheadings in the margins of the text.
• Read a section or paragraph once through for general understanding.
• Reread the section or paragraph, marking the text and making marginal
notes selectively.

 Underline information as if you were preparing brief notes from which


you could study.
 Circle special terminology and vocabulary words. Underline the
definitions or write meanings from context in the margins.
 Underline or circle repeated words, phrases, and their synonyms. This
is a clue to main ideas.
 Mark or label examples that represent main ideas.
 Use brackets [ ] around key ideas or interesting statements.
 Put boxes around major transitional words and phrases.
 Number important or sequential ideas.
 Jot down outlines, questions, and summaries in available space within
the margins.
 Use symbols such as those below to help you keep track of your
thinking:

• ? = I don’t understand; this is confusing.


• = This seems very important.
• ! = Wow! Interesting; I’m surprised.
• D = I disagree with this point or idea.
• A = I agree with this point or idea.
• OK = Now I understand; this makes sense.
• MI = Main idea.

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