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they laboriously start over, re-notating an earlier reading.
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Sean Nash on 19 Jul 14This is frustrating at times, for sure. However, do you think there is ever a situation where a FIRST reading without annotation is a good idea?
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only when cramming for a test
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and can be completely personal
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You can deliberately engage the author in conversation and questions
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much like having a teacher or storyteller with you in the room
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Annotate any text that you must know well, in detail, and from which you might need to produce evidence that supports your knowledge or reading, such as a book on which you will be tested.
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if you're relaxing with a book, well, relax. Still, some people—let's call them "not-abnormal"—actually annotate for pleasure.
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Amen on: not annotating when reading for pleasure. That said, I found it liberating to be labeled "not-abnormal" for considering books that I WOULD annotate (nearly all of them) something that is actually pleasurable for some. I'm a fan of non-fiction, and I cannot, for the life of me, remember a text I have recently read that didn't teach me something that I would want to be able to recall at a moment's notice if I wanted/needed to.
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Don't annotate other people's property, which is almost always selfish, often destructive, rude, and possibly illegal. For a book that doesn't belong to you, use adhesive notes for your comments, removing them before you return the text.
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This is the first statement made that in perhaps fundamentally different about using Diigo to annotate a text. This is truly a "best of both worlds" situation where you can simultaneously share annotations, "aha! moments" and reflections... and yet still read the text without any of the markup showing. At this point in the text, allow me to pose this question: what are positives/negatives of this approach in your opinion?
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blue and pink and fluorescent colors are even more distracting.
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Here is disagree completely. Color allow differentiation of thought. I'm better the author was never introduced to a strategy that allowed this for online text. Imagine the metacognitive power added when students are encouraged to not only log process their takeaways in the text... but to also categorize their thoughts along the way. There is a body of research providing a nod to categorizing reflections & questions.
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view highlighting on sample pages
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Even geniuses make mistakes, temporary comments, and incomplete notes.
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Create your own system for marking what is important, interesting, quotable, questionable, and so forth.
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Inside the front cover of your book, keep an orderly, legible list of "key information" with page references.
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that's useful idiosyncrasy.
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Nick Otten has taught for nearly 40 years—the last 20 at Clayton High School—specializing in American literature, creative writing, and student publication. He has also been adjunct professor at Webster University in St. Louis for 30 years, specializing in teacher training in the Master of Arts in Teaching graduate program. He has published widely on reading, written an editorial column in English Journal, and presented workshops for teachers in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and China.
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Most serious readers take notes of some kind when they are carefully considering a text, but many readers are too casual about their note-taking. Later they realize they have taken notes that are incomplete or too random, and then they laboriously start over... AP Central - How and Why to Annotate a Book http://t.co/0hCZX0Gegr
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Most serious readers take notes of some kind when they are carefully considering a text, but many readers are too casual about their note-taking. Later they realize they have taken notes that are incomplete or too random, and then they laboriously start over... AP Central - How and Why to Annotate a Book http://t.co/0hCZX0Gegr
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Most serious readers take notes of some kind when they are carefully considering a text, but many readers are too casual about their note-taking. Later they realize they have taken notes that are incomplete or too random, and then they laboriously start over... AP Central - How and Why to Annotate a Book http://t.co/0hCZX0Gegr