Annotating is taking notes and writing down comments.
When to do it
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While reading the text
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After reading the text
Reading intention
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Improve understanding
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Identify specific information
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Identify meaningful passages
Outcome
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Deeper understanding
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Easy access to information when reviewing
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Better information/content recall
How to Do It
Find and identify relevant information and/or passages.
Write down thoughts, summaries, questions, ideas, personal reactions, possible connections and/or predictions.
To learn more about a strategy, click its name.
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Get an overview of the text. |
Quickly search & find information |
Ask yourself questions |
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Create mental pictures |
Relate to the text |
Read between the lines |
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Annotating |
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Write down notes & comments |
Understand challenging words |
Sum up main idea & key elements |
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Explore sources to come up with new perspectives |
Form an opinion on the quality of the text |
Look at the structure and techniques used |