Recognize why you should annotate. Annotating, or interacting with, an article can help you understand the piece, highlight important concepts, and enhance your recall of the material. Things to note in your annotations include:
Background on the author
Themes throughout the text
The author’s purpose for writing the text
The author’s thesis
Points of confusion
How the text compares to other texts you are analyzing on the same topic
Questions to ask your teacher or questions to bring up in class discussions
Mark down the source information.
At the top of the document or annotation page, write down all of the citation information. If you know the citation style that you will be using, such as MLA or APA, it is even better if you can create an initial rough citation
Later on, you can gather all of these citations together to form a bibliography or works cited page, if required.
If you are working with a source that frequently changes, such as a newspaper or website, make sure to mark down the accession date or number (the year the piece was acquired and/or where it came from).
Understand your reading goals.
If you are reading for your own personal work, then focus on finding information connected to your research goals. If you are working on a class assignment, consider what goals your teacher might have for you. They may want you to concentrate on creating a series of response questions or perhaps locating the main idea.
If you were given an assignment sheet with listed objectives, you might look over your completed annotation and check off each objective when finished. This will ensure that you’ve met all of the requirements.
If the weather were fine, they … out of town.
would go
go
gone
had gone
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