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THE WRITING PROCESS - Annotating a text - Coggle Diagram
THE WRITING PROCESS - Annotating a text
Benefits
Trace the development of ideas throughout the text
Engage the reader through the introduction of thoughts, comments, questions, associations, or other reactions
Express the main ideas of a text
Clearly identify: important ideas and information.
Familiarize yourself with both the content and organization of what you read
Ways of annotating a text
Highlighting/ Underlining
Advantages
Easier to review material.
Good way of picking out specific language
Useful way of marking parts of a text that you want to make notes about.
Good idea to highlight words/phrases that are referred to by your other annotations.
Disadvantages
Tendency to highlight more information than necessary.
It's the least active form of annotating.
Paraphrase/ Summary of main ideas
Locate important ideas to capure their meaning through paraphrase.
Advantages
solidify your understanding of these ideas
preparation for any writing you may have to do based on your reading
Brief notes in the margins gives you a handy summary
Descriptive outline
It shows the organization of a piece of paper, first with the introductory ideas and then with the details and supporting ideas.
It focus on the fuction of individual sections within a text
Introduction
Explanation
Giving examples
Conclusion
It allows you to follow the construction of the argument and the processof the author's thinking.
Comment/ Responses
Note your reactions - agreement/disagreement, questions, personal experience, connections with other texts, etc.
This is an excellent way to begin formulating your own ideas for writing assignments based on the text or its ideas.