Strategies for the Test: Using Annotations
One way to manage both your time and the information you're reading is to annotate. Annotating, or taking notes, can help you remember critical details without becoming overwhelmed or lost in a text. Review this article for ideas on how to annotate a text in the way that works best for you.
Annotating
What is Annotating?
To annotate is to actively engage a text by pausing to reflect, markup, and add notes as you read.
3 Ways Annotating Improves Reading
1. Avoid having to re-read as often2. Monitor and improve your comprehension
3. Remember what you've read
The simplest way to annotate:
Mark By
• Key words
• Phrases
• Passages
• Highlighting
• Underlining
• Bracketing
• Placing symbols
4 Reasons for Writing Notes in the Margins
1. Identify key ideas and help you remember them
2. Comment on what you are reading
3. Question what you are reading
4. Answer guide questions you previously wrote
Source: Excelsior College, https://owl.excelsior.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Annotating2019.pdf
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