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Annotation Guidelines

The document provides guidelines for effectively annotating readings using various colored pens. It outlines steps such as reading without tools, circling confusing terms, highlighting major points, asking questions, noting surprising information, making connections, and numbering key ideas. These strategies aim to enhance comprehension and facilitate summarization of the text.

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Annotation Guidelines

The document provides guidelines for effectively annotating readings using various colored pens. It outlines steps such as reading without tools, circling confusing terms, highlighting major points, asking questions, noting surprising information, making connections, and numbering key ideas. These strategies aim to enhance comprehension and facilitate summarization of the text.

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Annotation Guidelines

To effectively annotate your readings, you need to use several different colored pens.
In the case of a text you intend to sell or return, I suggest you either copy the essays or
use colored sticky notes.

1. READ
a. The first thing you must ALWAYS do is read the information given.
b. Read it with no pen/pencil/highlighter in your hand. Just READ.

2. Circle key words or phrases that are confusing or unknown to you.


a. Replace the word with a word that is more familiar to you so that next time you read it, it will be
clearer.

3. Underline or Highlight the major points in a single color.


a. Each time you annotate your article you will use a different color.
b. EVERYTHING is not important.
c. Highlight what you would use if you were asked to do a summary on the information given.

4. Ask questions.
a. Use a questions mark ? for questions that you have during the reading.
b. Write your question on the side somewhere so that you remember to ask the instructor.

5. Use an exclamation point ! for things that surprise you.


a. Briefly note what it was that caught your attention.
b. Write it down in the margins or in a blank space.

6. Draw an arrow when you make a connection to something inside


the text to an idea or experience outside the text.
a. Briefly note your connections in the margins or in a blank space.

7. Write EX when the author provides an example.

8. Number arguments, important ideas, or key details, and write words


or phrases that restate them.
a. This is to help you write a summary and/or use evidence from the article/information to support
your stance.

This is a document from HUNTER COLLEGE READING/WRITING CENTER: THE WRITING PROCESS
Invention: Annotating a Text.

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