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The first picture is of the book They Say I Say by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein. It features a page I annotated while reading the chapter. The technique I used for these annotations were different colored sticky notes. The yellow sticky note was used to signal templates, so when I am flipping through I can easily spot them. The yellow sticky note also described what the template was for. Then, the blue sticky note was used for questions. Typically my questions were answered later in the chapter and was focused more on context than credibility. However on other pages, I did ask questions relating to credibility. Sticky notes that were green were used to summarize a specific part of a paragraph. I learned to use the different colored sticky note technique in this English 110 course. This method is helpful when looking back at my annotations and trying to find a specific comment. However, I should have chose a bigger sticky note for summarizing. Some of my summaries were to broad, and I ended up rereading the section anyways.
The other picture shows my annotations on an article I used for my big data essay. Before this course, I used to highlight anything I thought would be important resulting in the page to appear as a giant yellow blob. In this course, I chunked the research article along with highlighting and summarizing. I would highlight important facts or claims made in the article. Highlighting less helped me focus on what was important in the article. Chucking the paragraphs allowed me to make brief summaries of the article. This technique was extremely helpful when annotating multiple articles, which were long. I also made comments on my specific ideas I thought were more important or if I had a question. In this example, I also defined”overfitting” since it was a term I did not know and looked up. These annotation techniques guided me to be a more active reader. I engage more with the next by not only summarizing but adding questions, making connections to myself, other texts, and the world, and expressing my reactions.
