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Annotation Tips_ Writing_Reasoning Foundation

This document provides a guide on how to effectively annotate reading assignments, detailing the scoring rubric and offering tips for highlighting, questioning, and making connections. It emphasizes the importance of annotations for personal understanding and critical thinking, while also explaining the necessity of submitting them for grading. Good and poor annotation examples are included to illustrate effective practices.

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Annotation Tips_ Writing_Reasoning Foundation

This document provides a guide on how to effectively annotate reading assignments, detailing the scoring rubric and offering tips for highlighting, questioning, and making connections. It emphasizes the importance of annotations for personal understanding and critical thinking, while also explaining the necessity of submitting them for grading. Good and poor annotation examples are included to illustrate effective practices.

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Annotation Tips

Overview
This is a basic guide to answer common questions and concerns regarding the annotated
reading assignments and annotations in general.

How do I score well on the annotated reading assignments in this


course?
The rubric contains three criteria: Highlighting and Marking (2 points), Questions (2 points), and
Comments and/or Connections (6 points). Follow the guidelines of the rubric to ensure you
complete the assignment correctly.

Tips for Annotating


Highlighting and Marking
Mark connected ideas within the reading using the same highlighter colors, text indicators,
drop pins, or other markers.
Identify key terms you notice or don't fully understand as needed in the document.
Use lines and/or arrows to connect answers back to questions you include in the document.
Questions
Examples of questions to ask and include in your annotations as you read.
Is this always true?
What if ____ happened?
What about the other side; wouldn't they argue ____?
What evidence is there to support this?
How would ____ feel about this comment?
How does this apply to me?
Why should I care about this?
Comments and/or Connections
Make at least two insightful comments or connections on each page of the document.
Connection types can include:
Text-to-self (this reminds me of my own experience with...)
Text-to-text (this reminds me of a book, article, movie, textbook, scientific study, etc.)
Text-to-world (this reminds me of a historical event, a current event, or a larger problem
in the world)
Good Annotation Examples
Highlighting and Marking

In this sample the highlights show a connection between like topics and indicate the
beginnings of a color code.

Questions (and answers)

In this sample the questions are relevant to the content and shows that the student is
thinking more deeply about what they are reading. The student also indicates the answer
to their question later in the text.

Comments and/or Connections

In this sample there are two quality comments/connections on the page, both text-to-self
connections that show the student actually trying to internalize what they read.
Poor Annotation Examples
Highlighting and Marking

In this sample there is no meaningful structure to the different highlights of each word in
the sentence.

Questions (and answers)

In this sample the question does not show sincerity and does not help the student better
understand the content.

Comments and/or Connections

In this sample the comment does not draw a connection to the student, nor does it
demonstrate that the student is internalizing what they are reading.
Why do we annotate?
Annotations are ultimately for your own personal understanding and comprehension of things
you read.
Annotations leave a record of thoughts you had and connections you made while reading a
document.
Annotations allow you decide whether you agree with what you read.

If annotations are for my own personal understanding why do I have


to turn them in for points in this course?
Graded annotation assignments are included in this course only the teach you how to use this
valuable tool to your personal benefit.
Submitting annotated documents in this course demonstrates your ability to think critically
about what you read.

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